Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
"Edward Everett Hale" was an American author, historian and Christian Unitarianism/Unitarian Minister (Christianity)/minister.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous clergy! More Edward Everett Hale on Wikipedia.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.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do.
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.
I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
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.
If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.
A great character, founded on the living rock of principle, is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not merely an immediate, but a continuous, progressive, and never-ending agency. It survives the man who possessed it . . .
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.
To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.
The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.
Are you complete in yourself? [The root] answers, "No, my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves and I shall die." So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual.
You shall not pile, with servile toil,/ Your monuments upon my breast,/ Nor yet within the common soil/ Lay down the wreck of power to rest . . .
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