Edward Everett Quotes

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

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

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

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.

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

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

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

Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.

To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

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

I can't do everything, but that won't stop me from doing the little I can do.

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

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.

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.

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.

It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.

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

War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.

In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion.

Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.

There is no sanctuary of virtue like a home.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.

When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.

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.

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

All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.

There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy.

Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time; . . . drop a grain of our blessed gold [wheat] into the ground and lo! a mystery.

When every brake hath found its note, and sunshine smiles in every flower.

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.

And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.

The heart of the People, North and South, is for the Union.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

To look up and not down To look forward and not back To look out and not in and To lend a hand.

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.

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 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.

I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

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.