Best Quotes by Theodore Parker (Top 10)
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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.
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Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
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The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
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Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".
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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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Humanity is the sin of God.
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Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.
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Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
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Disappointment is often the salt of life.
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More Theodore Parker Quotes
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The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
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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 us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.
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Remorse is the pain of sin.
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[America is] 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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Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
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Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.
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Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
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Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.
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