Theodore Roosevelt: The Man as I Knew HimChristian Herald, 1919 - 420 pages |
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... fact , no president or king sent congratulations . It is not likely that many persons living on the same block , even , ever heard that such a child had been born , so silent and small are the beginnings of great- ness , are the ...
... fact , no president or king sent congratulations . It is not likely that many persons living on the same block , even , ever heard that such a child had been born , so silent and small are the beginnings of great- ness , are the ...
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... fact that he was born in a rich man's home . He is the first very rich man's son who ever became President . All virtue does not inhere in those that are poor or in moderate circumstances , nor is all vice to be found in wealth , but the ...
... fact that he was born in a rich man's home . He is the first very rich man's son who ever became President . All virtue does not inhere in those that are poor or in moderate circumstances , nor is all vice to be found in wealth , but the ...
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... fact re- mains that this boy from 20th Street was the only son of a very rich man that ever became President of the United States . The home of wealth , ordinarily the handicap of greatness , was in the case of Theodore Roosevelt , one ...
... fact re- mains that this boy from 20th Street was the only son of a very rich man that ever became President of the United States . The home of wealth , ordinarily the handicap of greatness , was in the case of Theodore Roosevelt , one ...
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... fact , Colonel Roosevelt , time and again to those of us closest to him , claimed that much of his success in life grew out of the fact that his father made it possible for him to give his life up to the service of the state without ...
... fact , Colonel Roosevelt , time and again to those of us closest to him , claimed that much of his success in life grew out of the fact that his father made it possible for him to give his life up to the service of the state without ...
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... facts . He ar- raigned in detail the evils in the municipality , State and nation . He told what the remedies should be . He said that if they were to elect him he would do his very best to check , in the city and State , evils that ...
... facts . He ar- raigned in detail the evils in the municipality , State and nation . He told what the remedies should be . He said that if they were to elect him he would do his very best to check , in the city and State , evils that ...
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Page 30 - I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Page 318 - HOW firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in his excellent word ! What more can he say than to you he hath said, You who unto Jesus for refuge have fled...
Page 297 - Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
Page 296 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of Angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Page 318 - The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose, I will not, I will not desert to his foes; That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake, I'll never, no never, no never forsake!
Page 298 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Page 318 - I am thy God, and will still give thee aid; I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand, Upheld by My righteous, omnipotent hand.
Page 306 - I do the very best I know how — the very best I can ; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Page 435 - Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die, and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
Page 30 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may...