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For years I have been crouching in corners hissing small and ladylike anathema of Theodore Dreiser.
— Dorothy Parker
Remorse is the pain of sin.
— 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
All men desire to be immortal.
— Theodore Parker
Humanity is the Son of God.
— Theodore Parker
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buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.
— Theodore Parker
Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.
— Theodore Parker
Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.
— Theodore Parker
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.
— Theodore Parker
Pride is both a virtue and a vice.
— Theodore Parker
The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.
— Theodore Parker
Politics is the science of urgencies.
— Theodore Parker
Nature is God's Old Testament.
— Theodore Parker
It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.
— Theodore Parker
Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.
— Theodore Parker
It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.
— Theodore Parker
The most useful is the greatest.
— Theodore Parker
Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to mellow and season it.
— Theodore Parker
Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor
— Theodore Parker
Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.
— Theodore Parker
Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.
— Theodore Parker
No man is so great as mankind.
— Theodore Parker
The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.
— Theodore Parker
Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.
— Theodore Parker
You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.
— Theodore Parker
I look through the grave into heaven.
— Theodore Parker
Science is the natural ally of religion.
— Theodore Parker
For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.
— Theodore Parker
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
— Theodore Parker
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.
— Theodore Parker
Disappointment is often the salt of life.
— Theodore Parker
Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
— Theodore Parker
Great success is a great temptation.
— Theodore Parker
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.
— Theodore Parker
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
— Theodore Parker
Greatness is its own torment.
— Theodore Parker
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
— Theodore Parker
The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.
— Theodore Parker
And war-the worst form of evil!
— Theodore Parker
All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.
— Theodore Parker
Marriages are best made of dissimilar material.
— Theodore Parker
A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.
— Theodore Parker
The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.
— Theodore Parker
What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.
— Theodore Parker
Love is the piety of the affections.
— Theodore Parker
Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.
— Theodore Parker
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.
— Theodore Parker
No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.
— Theodore Parker
Humanity is the sin of God.
— Theodore Parker
A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life.
— Theodore W. Parker
Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.
— Theodore Parker
Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
— Theodore Parker
The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul.
— Theodore Parker
What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.
— Theodore Parker
Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body.
— Theodore Parker
Intellect is stronger than cannon.
— Theodore Parker
In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.
— Theodore Parker
It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.
— Theodore Parker
The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties.
— Theodore Parker
Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
— Theodore Parker
The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
— Theodore Parker
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
— Theodore Parker
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
— Theodore Parker
Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.
— Theodore Parker
There is no college for the conscience.
— Theodore Parker
The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker.
— Theodore Parker
I am conscious of eternal life.
— Theodore Parker
