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All his sons went from him to the war and one was killed upon the field of honor.
Of all the ideals that lift men up, the hardest to fulfill is the ideal of sacrifice.
Theodore Roosevelt met it as he had all others and fulfilled it to the last jot of its
terrible ...
All his sons went from him to the war and one was killed upon the field of honor.
Of all the ideals that lift men up, the hardest to fulfill is the ideal of sacrifice.
Theodore Roosevelt met it as he had all others and fulfilled it to the last jot of its
terrible ...
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This always fascinated us; but there was a small chamois kid for which we felt
agonies lest the hunter might come on it and kill it. There was also a Russian
moujiko drawing a gilt sledge on a piece of malachite.” Some one mentioned in
my ...
This always fascinated us; but there was a small chamois kid for which we felt
agonies lest the hunter might come on it and kill it. There was also a Russian
moujiko drawing a gilt sledge on a piece of malachite.” Some one mentioned in
my ...
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... to be sent before breakfast to get strawberries I suddenly 15 saw a dead seal
laid out on a slab of wood. That seal filled me with every possible feeling of
romance and adventure. I asked where it was killed, and was informed in the
harbor.
... to be sent before breakfast to get strawberries I suddenly 15 saw a dead seal
laid out on a slab of wood. That seal filled me with every possible feeling of
romance and adventure. I asked where it was killed, and was informed in the
harbor.
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As it happened, however, the only narrow escape I personally ever had was from
a grizzly, and in Africa the animal killed closest to me as it was charging was a
rhinoceros— all of which goes to show that a man must not general15 ize too ...
As it happened, however, the only narrow escape I personally ever had was from
a grizzly, and in Africa the animal killed closest to me as it was charging was a
rhinoceros— all of which goes to show that a man must not general15 ize too ...
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bull elephant, also unwounded, which charged, nearly got me, as I had just fired
both cartridges from my heavy double-barreled rifle in killing the bull I was after—
the first wild elephant I had ever seen. The second bull came through the thick ...
bull elephant, also unwounded, which charged, nearly got me, as I had just fired
both cartridges from my heavy double-barreled rifle in killing the bull I was after—
the first wild elephant I had ever seen. The second bull came through the thick ...
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Page 220 - ... spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly...
Page 220 - ... and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.— Theodore Roosevelt.
Page 234 - They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar to all, and revered by all, constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere.
Page 167 - We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort ; the man who never wrongs his neighbor ; who is prompt to help a friend ; but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.
Page 166 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 180 - The men with the muckrakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them, to the crown of worthy endeavor.
Page 168 - Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Page 178 - An epidemic of indiscriminate assault upon character does no good, but very great harm. The soul of every scoundrel is gladdened whenever an honest man is assailed, or even when a scoundrel is untruthfully assailed. Now, it is easy to twist out of shape what I have just said, easy to affect to misunderstand it, and, if it is slurred over in repetition, not difficult really to misunderstand it.
Page 354 - Interpreter takes them apart again and has them first into a room, where was a man that could look no way but downwards, with a muck-rake in his hand. There stood also one, over his head, with a celestial crown in his hand, and proffered...
Page 177 - Pilgrim's Progress" you may recall the description of the Man with the Muck-rake, the man who could look no way but downward, with the muck-rake in his hand ; who was offered a celestial crown for his muck-rake, but who would neither look up nor regard the crown he was offered, but continued to rake to himself the filth of the floor.
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| Title | Roosevelt's Writings: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt [Macmillan's pocket American and English classics] |
| Author | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Editor | Maurice Garland Fulton |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1920 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 16 Nov 2006 |
| Length | 365 pages |
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