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... The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche - Page 269by Henry Louis Mencken - 1908 - 325 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1922 - 772 pages
...the weight of centuries, he leans upon his hoe. Laugh and the world laughs with you. I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. The gods are growing old. An irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces. "I must rescue... | |
| New York (State). Governor - 1899 - 356 pages
...pre-eminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine...of toil and effort; of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires more easy peace, but to the man... | |
| New York (State). Governor (1899-1901 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt - 1899 - 352 pages
...pre-eminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine...toil and effort ; of labor and strife ; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires more easy peace, but to the man... | |
| Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh - 1900 - 458 pages
...preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine...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... | |
| Charles Eugene Banks, Le Roy Armstrong - 1901 - 480 pages
...preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine...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... | |
| Theodore Roosevelt - 1901 - 302 pages
...pre-eminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine...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... | |
| Bp. Samuel Fallows, Samuel Fallows - 1901 - 550 pages
...preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine...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... | |
| Edward T. Roe - 1901 - 406 pages
...April II, 1899, when he delivered his famous address, from which we quote the following: "... I preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine...the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife. ... I ask only that what every self-respecting American demands from himself, and from his sons, shall... | |
| Helen Mathers - 1902 - 344 pages
...tremendously," she went on warmly. " ' I wish to preach,' he said, with snapping teeth and blazing eyes, ' not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine...the Strenuous Life, the life of toil and effort, of labour and strife — to preach that highest form of success, which comes, not to the man who desires... | |
| Murat Halstead - 1902 - 496 pages
...in the American character, I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of 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 more easy peace, but to the man... | |
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