Quotes by Theodore Parker

Theodore Parker

American minister

Lived from: 1810 - 1860

Category: Politics Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 24 august 1810 Died: 10 may 1860

  • Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
  • It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

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  • As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
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  • It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
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  • Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
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  • Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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  • Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
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  • Politics is the science of urgencies.
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  • Remorse is the pain of sin.
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  • Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
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  • The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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  • We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.
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  • Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
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