Edward Everett Hale Quotes

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• Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and .…
• You and I must not complain if our plans break down if we have done our part. That probably means that the plans of One…
• Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again…
• In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which will continue to…
• He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands.
• I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
• You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to…
• I know I am only one, but I am one, and just because I'm one should not stop me from
• For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.
• Take time enough for your meals, and eat them in company whenever you can. There is no need for hurry in life—least of all when…
• [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,…
• [S]leep, and enough of it, is the prime necessity. Enough exercise, and good food and enough, are other necessities. But sleep—good sleep, and enough of…
• War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.
• An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise…
• 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 you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.
• In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
• Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
• If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.
• To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

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