Edward Everett Hale Quotes

• 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

  Grace, Making A Difference, Charity

  "Personal Quote/ Did you know?". www.imdb.com.

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• The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Friendship, Success, Real

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• If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Decision

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• Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Critical Spirit, Habit, Critical

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• 'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Country, Drs, Looks

  Van Wyck Brooks 'New England Indian Summer' (1940) p. 418 n.

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• Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Failure, Worry, People

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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

  Edward Everett Hale

  Leadership, Sports, Should

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• To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Motivational, Hands, Optimism

  Ten Times One Is Ten ch. 9 (1871)

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• In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Time, Native American, Hypocrite

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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 sleep—good sleep, and enough of it—this is a necessity without which you cannot have the exercise of use, nor the food.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Sleep, Exercise, Use

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• Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Luxury

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• I can't do everything, but that won't stop me from doing the little I can do.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Littles, Can Do, I Can

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• 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 who knows more than we do have succeeded.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Mean, Complaining, Done

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• 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 to lift itself up into any higher order of culture or life, is wholly mistaken, unless as an essential part of its duty, it goes out into the world, finds those that are falling down, and lifts them up to the majesty of freemen, who are sons of God.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Fall, Reading, Son

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• 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 we are eating.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Food, Meals, Needs

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• I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Words Of Kindness, Refuse, Peace Justice

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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 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. But if you who read will remember that you are an infinite child of God, and can partake of his nature, and that you have given to you the management and direction of your mind and your body, you will be saved many failures.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Children, Party, Two

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• 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.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Intelligent, Class, Intelligence

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• War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.

  Edward Everett Hale

  War, Apprenticeship, Hard

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• 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 immediately.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Wise, Anger, Fire

  "The Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Matthew Henry". Book by Matthew Henry and Philip Henry, p. 134, 1830.

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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 belong to her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Mother, Country, Boys

  Edward Everett Hale, Hsuan L. Hsu, Susan Kalter (2010). “Two Texts by Edward Everett Hale: "The Man Without a Country" and Philip Nolan's Friends”, p.32, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Can it be possible that all human sympathies can thrive, and all human powers be exercised, and all human joys increase, if we live with all our might with the thirty or forty people next to us, telegraphing kindly to all other people, to be sure? Can it be possible that our passion for large cities, and large parties, and large theatres, and large churches, develops no faith nor hope nor love which would not find aliment and exercise in a little "world of our own"?

  Edward Everett Hale

  Party, Passion, Exercise

  Edward Everett Hale (1899). “Works”

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• 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 exist there when the last of their radiant host shall have fallen from heaven.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Morning, Stars, Math

  "Mathematics, Queen and Servant of Science". Book by Eric Temple Bell (p. 21), 1952.

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• He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Love, Country, Men

  The ManWithout a Country (1863)

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• No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united America settle upon it in one eternal sunshine. From beneath that humble roof went forth the intrepid and unselfish warrior, the magistrate who knew no glory but his country's good; to that he returned, happiest when his work was done. There he lived in noble simplicity, there he died in glory and peace.

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  Country, Gratitude, Peace

  "A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time Vol. V". Book by Edmund Clarence Stedman and Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, 1888.

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