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Theodore Parker Quotes about Greatness

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

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

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

Greatness is its own torment.

Theodore Parker
Greatness, Torment
Theodore Parker (1855). “Ten Sermons of Religion”, p.89

The most useful is the greatest.

Theodore Parker
Greatness

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

Theodore Parker
Greatness, Men, Institutions
Theodore Parker (1865). “Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man”, p.205

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

Theodore Parker
Greatness, Men, World
Theodore Parker (1866). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of theology”, p.1

The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.

Theodore Parker
Greatness, Men, Race
Theodore Parker (1863). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of politics”, p.135

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

Theodore Parker
Kings, Greatness, Years

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