The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, Volume 20Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903 |
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Page 42
... ideal , that is , the quality which makes men reformers , and the quality of so striving through practical methods— the quality which makes men efficient . Both qualities are absolutely essential . The absence of either makes the ...
... ideal , that is , the quality which makes men reformers , and the quality of so striving through practical methods— the quality which makes men efficient . Both qualities are absolutely essential . The absence of either makes the ...
Page 43
... ideal , is utterly worthless . The cloistered virtue which timidly shrinks from all contact with the rough world of actual life , and the uneasy , self - conscious vanity which misnames itself virtue , and which declines to cooperate ...
... ideal , is utterly worthless . The cloistered virtue which timidly shrinks from all contact with the rough world of actual life , and the uneasy , self - conscious vanity which misnames itself virtue , and which declines to cooperate ...
Page 44
... ideal ; but the difference lies in the fact that the first is imprac- ticable , not in his having a high ideal , for the ideal of the other may be even higher . At times a man must cut loose from his associates , and stand alone for a ...
... ideal ; but the difference lies in the fact that the first is imprac- ticable , not in his having a high ideal , for the ideal of the other may be even higher . At times a man must cut loose from his associates , and stand alone for a ...
Page 59
... ideal and the practicable , " he is amusingly unaware that he is writing his own condemnation , showing his own inability to do good work or to appreciate good work . The Constitutional Convention over which Washington presided , and ...
... ideal and the practicable , " he is amusingly unaware that he is writing his own condemnation , showing his own inability to do good work or to appreciate good work . The Constitutional Convention over which Washington presided , and ...
Page 60
... ideal and have striven mightily through practical methods to realize that ideal . There must be many compro- mises ; but we cannot compromise with dis- honesty , with sin . We must not be misled at any time by the cheap assertion that ...
... ideal and have striven mightily through practical methods to realize that ideal . There must be many compro- mises ; but we cannot compromise with dis- honesty , with sin . We must not be misled at any time by the cheap assertion that ...
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