Theodore Parker Quotes

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• I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

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  Atheist, Eye, Curves

  Theodore Parker (1908). “Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]”

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• Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

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  Respect, Self Esteem, Individuality

  Theodore Parker (1853). “Two Sermons Preached Before the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society in Boston: On the 14th and 21st of November, 1852, on Leaving Their Old and Entering a New Place of Worship”, p.58

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• First there is the democratic idea: that all men are endowed by their creator with certain natural rights; that these rights are alienable only by the possessor thereof; that they are equal in men; that government is to organize these natural, unalienable and equal rights into institutions designed for the good of the governed, and therefore government is to be of all the people, by all the people, and for all the people. Here government is development, not exploitation.

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  Men, Rights, Ideas

  Theodore Parker (1867). “Additional Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons”, p.25

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• Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

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  Freedom, Mean, Diversity

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

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  Education, Reading, Book

  "The Gigantic Book of Teachers' Wisdom" y Erin Gruwell and Frank McCourt, (p. 496), 2007.

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• Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.

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  Heart, Self, Soul

  Theodore Parker (1853). “Two Sermons Preached Before the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society in Boston: On the 14th and 21st of November, 1852, on Leaving Their Old and Entering a New Place of Worship”, p.58

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• Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

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  Religious, Nature, Book

  Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.88

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• I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.

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  Long, Justice, Oval

  Theodore Parker (1895). “Ten Sermons of Religion and Prayers”

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• Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.

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  Life, Success, Home

  Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.86

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• Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

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  Inward, Judgment, Failing

  "Dictionary of American Maxims". Book edited by David George Plotkin, 1955.

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• A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.

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  Government, Law, Ideas

  Theodore Parker (1871). “Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons”, p.41

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• Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

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  Promise, Magnificent

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• The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.

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  Book, Thinking, Make You Think

  "The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man".

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• I believe in the admission of women to the full rights of citizenship and share in government, on the express grounds that few women keep house so badly or with such wastefulness as chancellors of the exchequer keep the state.

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  Believe, Rights, Government

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

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  Greatness, Men, Mankind

  Theodore Parker (1871). “Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons”, p.253

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• A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

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  Marriage, Falling In Love, Long

  Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.151

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• Disappointment is often the salt of life.

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  Disappointment, Salt, Disappointment Love

  Theodore Parker (1864). “Miscellaneous Discourses”, p.116

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• Wealth and want equally harden the human heart...

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  Heart, Want, Wealth

  "Treasury of Thought : Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors" edited by Martin M. Ballou, (p. 231), 1894.

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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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  Inspirational, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Theodore Parker “Works”

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• All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little-something which they value for more than its use, and which is a symbol of their emancipation from the mere materialism and drudgery of daily life.

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  Men, Needs, Use

  Theodore Parker (1855). “Ten Sermons of Religion”, p.119

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• Every man has at times in his mind the Ideal of what he should be, but is not. This ideal may be high and complete, or it may be quite low and insufficient; yet in all men, that really seek to improve, it is better than the actual character... Man never falls so low, that he can see nothing higher than himself.

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  Fall, Character, Men

  "A Lesson for the Day; or The Christianity of Christ, of the Church, and of Society". "The Dial" Magazine, (p. 196), October 1940.

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• Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution.

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  Men, Years, Selfishness

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• Religion without joy-it is no religion.

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  Joy

  Theodore Parker (1855). “Ten Sermons of Religion”, p.307

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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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  Men, Jewels, World

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• 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.

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  Men, Soul, Affinity

  Theodore Parker (1863). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: A discourse of matter pertaining to religion”, p.202

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