Edward Everett Hale

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

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Wrong fails because it is wrong. The wrongs, the untruths, are inconsistent with each other. They clash against each other and confute each other. They neutralize each other and are lost.

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Look up and not down; out and not in; forward and not back; and lend a hand.

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Lift where you stand.

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Quotes by Edward Everett Hale