Theodore Parker Quotes
Top 71 wise famous quotes and sayings by Theodore Parker
Theodore Parker Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Theodore Parker on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.
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buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.
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.
Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.
It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.
Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.
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.
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.
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.
For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.
You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.
The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.
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.
No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.
What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.
In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.