Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

—Theodore Parker

About Theodore Parker

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Theodore Parker (August 24, 1810 – May 10, 1860) 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.

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Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

—Theodore Parker

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More quotations tagged with “promises”

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

—Robert Frost

When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers or cheap promises. There might not be any answers to your problems. What you need is a safe place where you can bounce with people who have taken some bad hops of their own.

—Gordon Atkinson

You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.

He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform what he has promised, is a traitor to his friend.

—George Shelley

He that promises most will perform least.

—Gaelic Proverb

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