Theodore Parker Short Quotes

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Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

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The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.

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Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

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

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I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.

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Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

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Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.

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Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body.

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Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.

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The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.

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Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.

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It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.

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Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.

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Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.

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It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

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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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Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.

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The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.

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What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

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In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

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Science is the natural ally of religion. Shall we try and separate what God has joined? We injure both by the attempt.

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The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

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The universe, broad, and deep, and high, is a handful of dust which God enchants. He is the mysterious magic which possesses the world.

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The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.

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No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

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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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The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.

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In America, the Democratic Party thinks slavery is 'indispensable to good government', and is 'the normal condition of one seventh part of the people'.

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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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There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God; for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires no advocates to plead for men.

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