| |  | | | | | Quotations by author » Edward Everett
American Educator and Orator, 1794-1865 | | Quotes: 1 - 8 of 8 | Pages: 1 | | | | | | A great character, founded on the living rock of principle, is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not merely an immediate, but a continuous, progressive, and never-ending agency. It survives the man who possessed it . . . | | Uncategorized | | | Are you complete in yourself? [The root] answers, "No, my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves and I shall die." So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual. | | Uncategorized | | | Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. | | Uncategorized | | | 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. | | Uncategorized | | | | | If this boy passes the examinations he will be admitted; and if the white students choose to withdraw, all the income of the college will be devoted to his education | | Education; Study | | | | | You shall not pile, with servile toil,/ Your monuments upon my breast,/ Nor yet within the common soil/ Lay down the wreck of power to rest . . . | | Uncategorized | | | | | Quotes: 1 - 8 of 8 | Pages: 1 | | | |
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