Theodore W. Parker famous quotes

A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life.
-- Theodore W. Parker

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If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me...

Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.

The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless.