Theodore Parker
10 quotes.
Quotes by Theodore Parker
- If you lend me your ears, I shall doubtless take your hearts too. That I may not lead you into any wrong, let me warn you of this. Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul.
- Let men laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
- 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.
- The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading: but a great book that comes from a great thinker--it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and with beauty.
- The books which help you most are those which make you think the most.
- The earnestness of life is the only passport to the satisfaction of life.
- The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
- The most useful is the greatest.
- Who escapes a duty avoids a gain.
- Work is the only universal currency which God accepts. A nation's welfare will depend on its ability to master the world; that, on power of work; that, on its power of thought.