Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so. Theodore Parker More Quotes by Theodore Parker More Quotes From 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buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.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 coats arms fashion 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 taken business men Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in. Theodore Parker jewels men world Love is the piety of the affections. Theodore Parker affection love-is love Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain. Theodore Parker gains duty Disappointment is often the salt of life. Theodore Parker disappointment-love salt disappointment The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest. Theodore Parker nests belief age It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history. Theodore Parker vain evil loss Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people. Theodore Parker government self people 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 nature heart men Humanity is the sin of God Theodore Parker sin humanity 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. Theodore Parker selfishness men years Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at. Theodore Parker telescopes stars men Politics is the science of urgencies. Theodore Parker urgency politician politics 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 naked soul brother The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties. Theodore Parker joy character heaven No man is so great as mankind. Theodore Parker mankind men Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body. Theodore Parker divine-order preservation body Intellect is stronger than cannon. Theodore Parker cannons intellect stronger Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time. Theodore Parker intellectual loss men