Edward Everett
Edward Everett
Edward Everettwas an American politician, pastor, educator, diplomat, and orator from Massachusetts. Everett, a Whig, served as U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, the 15th Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, and United States Secretary of State. He also taught at Harvard University and served as its president...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth11 April 1794
CountryUnited States of America
critical-spirit habit critical
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
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.
country gratitude peace
No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united America settle upon it in one eternal sunshine. From beneath that humble roof went forth the intrepid and unselfish warrior, the magistrate who knew no glory but his country's good; to that he returned, happiest when his work was done. There he lived in noble simplicity, there he died in glory and peace.
war apprenticeship hard
War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.
failure worry people
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.
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.
littles i-can can-do
I can't do everything, but that won't stop me from doing the little I can do.
sleep exercise use
[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.
motivational hands optimism
To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.
time native-american hypocrite
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.