Theodore Parker Quotes
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.
Citations
Parker, Theodore. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons. Vol. 2, Wm. Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1852, p. 317.
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Theodore Parker was an American transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. A reformer and abolitionist, his words and popular quotations would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr.