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Originally Posted by Margies3
Not sure if I'll get this exactly right word for word.........
I am only one person,
but I AM one person.
I cannot do everything
But what I can do I aught to do.
and what I aught to do, I will do.
Is that even close?
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These are some quotes from Edward Everett Hale (April 3, 1822 – June 10, 1909) who was an American author, historian and Unitarian clergyman. He was a child prodigy who exhibited extraordinary literary skills and at age thirteen was enrolled at Harvard University where he graduated second in his class. Hale would go on to write for a variety of publications and periodicals throughout his lifetime
'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' 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 I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.
If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
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.
The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.
War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.
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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