Edward Everett Hale
Edward Everett Hale
Edward Everett Halewas an American author, historian and Unitarian minister...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth3 April 1822
CountryUnited States of America
writing world might
For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.
intelligent class intelligence
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.
words-of-kindness peace-justice refuse
I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
morning stars heaven
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.
love country men
He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands.
mother country boys
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.
children party two
[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.
party passion exercise
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"?
critical-spirit habit critical
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
food meals needs
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.
wise fire doe
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.
country gratitude peace
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.
war apprenticeship hard
War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.
failure worry people
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.