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Edward Everett Quotes

«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»
«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.»
«Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.»
«There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.»
«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 . . .»
«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 . . .»
«I will not refuse to do something that I can do.»