Edward Everett Quotes About Character

• Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged forth in the conceptions of its great minds; they are organs of the time; they speak not their own language, they scarce think their own thoughts; but under an impulse like the prophetic enthusiasm of old, they must feel and utter the sentiments which society inspires.

  Edward Everett

  Country, Character, Thinking

  Edward Everett (1839). “Selections from the Works of Edward Everett: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.127

• A great character, founded on the living rock of principle is, in fact, not a solitary phenomenon, to be at once perceived, limited, and described. It 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; survives his age,--and perhaps, his country, his language.

  Edward Everett

  País, Carácter, Hombres

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.576

• Una inmortalidad terrenal pertenece a un carácter grande y bueno. La historia lo embalsama; vive en su influencia moral, en su autoridad, en su ejemplo, en el recuerdo de las palabras y hechos en que se manifestó; y como cada época aumenta las ilustraciones de su eficacia, puede suceder que sea el mejor comprendido por una posteridad remota.

  Edward Everett

  Memories, Character, Illustration

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.576

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