Theodore Parker Quotes

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Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
Theodore Parker

Often, Judgment, Fails

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
Theodore Parker

Individual, Sacredness, Violate

Remorse is the pain of sin.
Theodore Parker

Pain, Sin, Remorse

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.
Theodore Parker

Truth, Soul, Dead

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
Theodore Parker

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.
Theodore Parker

Business, Sad, Single

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.
Theodore Parker

Heart, Human, Wealth

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
Theodore Parker

Society, Poverty, Standard

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
Theodore Parker

Time, Laugh, Sacrifice

No man is so great as mankind.
Theodore Parker

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.
Theodore Parker

Great, Death, Soul

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.
Theodore Parker

Dark, Light, Heat

Humanity is the sin of God.
Theodore Parker

God, Humanity, Sin

Politics is the science of urgencies.
Theodore Parker

Politics, Science

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
Theodore Parker

Strong, Character, Religious

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Theologian

Born: August 24, 1810

Died: May 10, 1860

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