Edward Everett Hale
Overview
Unitarianism
Unitarianism is a Christian theological movement, named for its understanding of God as one person, in direct contrast to Trinitarianism which defines God as three persons coexisting consubstantially as one in being....
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.
Hale was born on April 3, 1822, in Boston, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
, the son of Nathan Hale
Nathan Hale (journalist)
Nathan Hale was an American journalist and newspaper publisher who introduced regular editorial comment as a newspaper feature.-Life and career:...
(1784–1863), proprietor and editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, and the brother of Lucretia Peabody Hale
Lucretia Peabody Hale
Lucretia Peabody Hale was a United States journalist and author.-Biography:Hale was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at George B. Emerson's school there...
, Susan Hale
Susan Hale
Susan Hale was an American author, traveler and artist.-Biography:She was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Nathan Hale and Sarah Preston Everett who had a total of eleven children...
, and Charles Hale
Charles Hale
Charles Hale of Boston was a legislator in the Massachusetts state House and Senate intermittently between 1855 and 1877. He was house speaker in 1859. In the 1860s he lived in Cairo, Egypt, as the American consul-general...
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Quotations
He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands.
The Man Without a Country, Epitaph of Philip Nolan
To look up and not down,To look forward and not back,To look out and not in, andTo lend a hand.
Ten Times One is Ten (1870)
I am only one,But still I am one.I cannot do everything,But still I can do something;And because I cannot do everythingI will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
Ten Times One is Ten (1870)
If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.
As quoted in The Quotable Manager : Inspiration for Business and Life (2006) by Joel J. Weiss, p. 128