The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, Volume 20Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903 |
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... lead clean , vigorous , healthy lives ; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor , not to shirk difficulties , but to overcome them ; not to seek ease , but to know how to wrest tri- umph from toil and risk . The man ...
... lead clean , vigorous , healthy lives ; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor , not to shirk difficulties , but to overcome them ; not to seek ease , but to know how to wrest tri- umph from toil and risk . The man ...
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... lead men to tamper with iniquity , to compromise . with unrighteousness , soothing their conscience with the belief that war is so entirely wrong that beside it no other tolerated evil is wrong . Witness Armenia and witness Crete . War ...
... lead men to tamper with iniquity , to compromise . with unrighteousness , soothing their conscience with the belief that war is so entirely wrong that beside it no other tolerated evil is wrong . Witness Armenia and witness Crete . War ...
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... leads to violent emotional reaction in a morbid nature from vice to virtue , also leads to the creation of Tolstoi's " Kreutzer Sonata " on the one hand , and of his unhealthy peace - mysticism on the other . A sane and healthy mind ...
... leads to violent emotional reaction in a morbid nature from vice to virtue , also leads to the creation of Tolstoi's " Kreutzer Sonata " on the one hand , and of his unhealthy peace - mysticism on the other . A sane and healthy mind ...
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... lead , withdraw themselves from the active work of life , whether social , philan- thropic , or political , and by the amount they thus withdraw from the side of the forces of good they strengthen the forces of evil , as , of course ...
... lead , withdraw themselves from the active work of life , whether social , philan- thropic , or political , and by the amount they thus withdraw from the side of the forces of good they strengthen the forces of evil , as , of course ...
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... lead , only he must lead in the right direction , and normally he must be in sight of his followers . Cynicism in public life is a curse , and when a man has lost the power of enthusiasm for righteousness it will be better for him and ...
... lead , only he must lead in the right direction , and normally he must be in sight of his followers . Cynicism in public life is a curse , and when a man has lost the power of enthusiasm for righteousness it will be better for him and ...
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