[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. Edward Everett Hale More Quotes by Edward Everett Hale More Quotes From Edward Everett Hale 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, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was "the scourge of God." Edward Everett Hale toil power men War - hard apprenticeship of freedom. Edward Everett Hale apprenticeship hard war 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. Edward Everett Hale meals food needs He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands. Edward Everett Hale love men country 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. Edward Everett Hale stars math morning [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. Edward Everett Hale party two children 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. Edward Everett Hale Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett Hale 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. Edward Everett Hale Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. Edward Everett Hale working-together together success Life seeks life and loves life. The opening of a catkin of a willow, in the flight of the butterfly, in the chirping of a tree-toad or the sweep of an eagle - my life loves to see how others live, exults in their joy, and so far is partner in their great concern. Edward Everett Hale my-life great butterfly life 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! Edward Everett Hale walk life death history The Resurrection miracle is nothing to you and me if it is only an event of eighteen centuries bygone. Unless we can live the immortal life - unless we can receive God to his own home in these hearts of ours - the texts are nothing to us unless these daily lives illustrate them. Edward Everett Hale me god home life Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have. Edward Everett Hale some-people never time people Nineteen centuries would have been worth very little if we had not made some advance in welcoming the stranger, in feeding the hungry, in clothing the naked, and in caring for the prisoner. Edward Everett Hale worth hungry naked caring 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. Edward Everett Hale great government god sun 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. Edward Everett Hale power truth life ideas You need the living, loving heart of living, loving men and women to quicken other hearts, which can live too and love too, and, in their turn, will quicken others which are dying now. Edward Everett Hale women heart love men Thrones, dominations, principalities know now with a terrible certainty that mere force of arms has no power which compares with that living word of the crucified Nazarene, that bears with it Eternal Life, and directs the duty of a world of men whom he can lead, but who bend no knee to power. Edward Everett Hale power men life world Gentlemen and ladies are sure of their ground. They pretend to nothing that they are not. Edward Everett Hale pretend sure ground nothing
