Quotes by Edward Everett Hale

Edward Everett Hale

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

Country

Drs

Looks

[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.

Children

Party

Two

[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.

Exercise

Sleep

Use

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.

Class

Intelligence

Intelligent

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.

Boys

Country

Mother

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”?

Exercise

Party

Passion

For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.

Stories

World

Writing

Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.

Luxury

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

Country

Love

Men

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.

Charity

Grace

Making A Difference

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Anger

Apprenticeship

Boys

Can Do

Charity

Children

Class

Complaining

Country

Critical

Critical Spirit

Decision

Done

Drs

Exercise

Failure

Fall

Fire

Food

Friendship

Grace

Gratitude

Habit

Hands

Hard

Hypocrite

I Can

Inspirational

Intelligence

Intelligent

Leadership

Littles

Looks

Love

Luxury

Making A Difference

Math

Meals

Mean

Men

Morning

Mother

Motivational

Native American

Needs

Optimism

Party

Passion

Peace

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Quotes by Edward Everett Hale

Edward Everett Hale

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

[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.

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.

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.

For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.

Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.

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

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.

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