I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will. — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. And by the grace of God, I will. — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
Life seeks life and loves life. The opening of a catkin of a willow, in the flight of the butterfly, in the chirping of… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life. — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakspearo, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having. this or that little reading from Spenser and from Chaucer, it is going… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share
“Look up and not down; look out and not in; look forward and not back, and lend a hand.” But” — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
You and I must not complain if our plans break down if we have done our part. That probably means that the plans of… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
[I]t is easy to regard the mind and the body as two slaves trained to obey the imperial soul… [I]n this trinity of soul, mind, and body, it is sometimes hard to tell which of the three is at work; and the personality of each of the three parties interferes a good deal with that of each of the others.… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share
You may take this as a general and central principle in criticism: that all science, literature or song, which recognizes conscious life as the… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
Gentlemen and ladies are sure of their ground. They pretend to nothing that they are not. — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
