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

— Edward Everett Hale

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More quotes by Edward Everett Hale

Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand!

Ten Times One is Ten (1870)

It is the part which contains all that is worth reading.

How To Do It (1871)

No matter what happens to you, no matter who flatters you or who abuses you, never look at another flag, never let a night pass but you pray God to bless that flag.

The Man Without a Country (1863)

Can it be possible that all human sympathies can thrive, and all human powers be exercised, and all human joys increase, if we live with all our might with the thirty or forty people next to us, telegraphing kindly to all other people, to be sure?

The Brick Moon (1869)

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.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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