“I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.
I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.”
Source: Gilead
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American novelist and essayist 1943Related quotes
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2007, 2008
Reported in Van Wyck Brooks, New England: Indian Summer, 1865–1915 (1940), p. 418, footnote. Another source states: "The celebrated anecdote... is not so unambiguous as it appears... There is no reason to doubt the authenticity of Hale's reply, but it should be understood within a framework of respect for the senators as well as concern for the country. He knew every one of them personally and regarded them, as he said in his preface to Prayers in The Senate (1904), as 'intelligent men, in very close daily intimacy with each other, in the discharge of a common duty of the greatest importance.'" John R. Adams, Edward Everett Hale (1977), pp. 100–101.
Disputed
“I used to pray to recover you.”
Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition
“As I lay me down to sleep
This I pray
That you will hold me dear”
Whaler (1994), As I Lay Me Down
Context: As I lay me down to sleep
This I pray
That you will hold me dear
Though I'm far away
I'll whisper your name into the sky
And I will wake up happy
"If You Can't Sleep".
Volume Two (2010)
Source: Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014), Chapter 16, “Sentence” (p. 151)