"An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as……" — Edward Everett Hale
"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 to the stimulus of sense and appetite."
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Edward Everett Hale
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26 Quotes by Edward Everett Hale
Edward Everett Hale has 26 quotes on this site.
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Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country…
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You and I must not complain if our plans break down if we have done our part. That probably means…
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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does…
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In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together,…
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He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands.
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I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
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You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down…
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I know I am only one, but I am one, and just because I'm one should not stop me from
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For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.
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Take time enough for your meals, and eat them in company whenever you can. There is no need for hurry…
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[I]t is easy to regard the mind and the body as two slaves trained to obey the imperial soul.... [I]n…
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[S]leep, and enough of it, is the prime necessity. Enough exercise, and good food and enough, are other necessities. But…
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More Activity Quotes
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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