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
critical-spirit habit critical
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
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.
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.
war apprenticeship hard
War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.
country looks drs
'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.
luxury
Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.
mean done complaining
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.
fall reading son
The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the Gospel to every creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakespeare, 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.