Author: Theodore Parker

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.

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

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

- Theodore Parker

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

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

- Theodore Parker

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.

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

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

- Theodore Parker

No man is so great as mankind.

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.

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

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

- Theodore Parker

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