"'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?'……" — Edward Everett Hale
"'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country."
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Edward Everett Hale
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26 Quotes by Edward Everett Hale
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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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