Quotes from Edward Everett Hale

The great event of history is in the great miracle of Life: when, to a paralyzed world, Jesus Christ said, 'Take up your bed and walk,' and at his voice, that world obeyed. The victory of life over death!

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

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.

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.

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

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

It sometimes seems easier to trace the great general laws of God's government in the passage of events far from us than in those close around us. We see the shape of those far-off constellations, but we cannot group or set in order that to which our own sun belongs.

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

Let a man live with God, not afraid to talk with him. Let him study God's plans and methods, as one of Michelangelo's pupils might study his.

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

Gentlemen and ladies are sure of their ground. They pretend to nothing that they are not.

Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.

I know I am only one, but I am one, and just because I'm one should not stop me from

It seems as if, for every dragon head that is lopped off, two more terrible appear. Seems so. But in truth, Life is gaining all the while. Brute force, such power as there seems to be in things, cannot stand against ideas which are eternal.

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

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

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three — all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

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.

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

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

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.

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 because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.