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And so all these things combined to give him his hold upon the American people,
not only upon their minds but upon their hearts and their instincts, which nothing
could ever weaken and which made him one of the most remarkable as he was ...
And so all these things combined to give him his hold upon the American people,
not only upon their minds but upon their hearts and their instincts, which nothing
could ever weaken and which made him one of the most remarkable as he was ...
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Roosevelt's success as a propagandist has been due to his saying things very
loud and clear.” From this mass of speeches and articles Roosevelt himself has
selected what he cared to preserve in book form, and has included it in the three
...
Roosevelt's success as a propagandist has been due to his saying things very
loud and clear.” From this mass of speeches and articles Roosevelt himself has
selected what he cared to preserve in book form, and has included it in the three
...
Page xxx
Roosevelt was painstaking and conscientious in his writing not alone in those
things he wrote with a feeling of their importance as literature but even in those
he wrote in more or less of a routine way. When he was doing editorial work for
The ...
Roosevelt was painstaking and conscientious in his writing not alone in those
things he wrote with a feeling of their importance as literature but even in those
he wrote in more or less of a routine way. When he was doing editorial work for
The ...
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Quite unknown to myself, I was, while a boy, under 30 a hopeless disadvantage
in studying nature. I was very near-sighted, so that the only things I could study
were those I ran against or stumbled over. When I was about thirteen I was
allowed ...
Quite unknown to myself, I was, while a boy, under 30 a hopeless disadvantage
in studying nature. I was very near-sighted, so that the only things I could study
were those I ran against or stumbled over. When I was about thirteen I was
allowed ...
Page 9
It was this summer that I got my first gun, 10 and it puzzled me to find that my
companions seemed to see things to shoot at which I could not see at all. One
day they read aloud an advertisement in huge letters on a distant billboard, and I
then ...
It was this summer that I got my first gun, 10 and it puzzled me to find that my
companions seemed to see things to shoot at which I could not see at all. One
day they read aloud an advertisement in huge letters on a distant billboard, and I
then ...
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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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