Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.
Theodore Parker
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Theodore Parker
Age: 49 †
Born: 1810
Born: August 24
Died: 1860
Died: May 10
Theologian
Lexington
Massachusetts
Masters
Manifold
Joy
Meadows
Break
Violet
Beauty
Sweetness
Geraniums
Thought
Breaks
Violets
Book
Grass
Dandelions
Great
Master
Writ
Good
Summer
Meadow
More quotes by Theodore Parker
That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.
Theodore Parker
Great success is a great temptation.
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
Theodore Parker
There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires no advocates to plead for men.
Theodore Parker
Politics is the science of urgencies.
Theodore Parker
Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.
Theodore Parker
What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.
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
Disappointment is often the salt of life.
Theodore Parker
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
Theodore Parker
The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
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buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.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
Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.
Theodore Parker
It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.
Theodore Parker
Religion without joy-it is no religion.
Theodore Parker
Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.
Theodore Parker
The most useful is the greatest.
Theodore Parker
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.
Theodore Parker
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
Theodore Parker
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.
Theodore Parker