The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... better not have begun the task at all . It is worse than idle to say that we have no duty to perform , and can leave to their fates the islands we have conquered . Such a course would be the course of infamy . It would be followed at ...
... better not have begun the task at all . It is worse than idle to say that we have no duty to perform , and can leave to their fates the islands we have conquered . Such a course would be the course of infamy . It would be followed at ...
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... better the excess Than the defect ; better the more than less . Longfellow's love of peace was profound ; but he was a man , and a wise man , and he knew that cowardice does not promote peace , and that even the great evil of war may be ...
... better the excess Than the defect ; better the more than less . Longfellow's love of peace was profound ; but he was a man , and a wise man , and he knew that cowardice does not promote peace , and that even the great evil of war may be ...
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... better than ever before ; and so they ought to be with Germany . Recently affairs in Samoa have been straightened out , although there we suffered from the worst of all types of gov- ernment , one in which three powers had a joint ...
... better than ever before ; and so they ought to be with Germany . Recently affairs in Samoa have been straightened out , although there we suffered from the worst of all types of gov- ernment , one in which three powers had a joint ...
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... better , or do not care to see things better . There are also men who are slightly disordered mentally , or who are cursed with a moral twist which makes them champion reforms less from a desire to do good to others than as a kind of ...
... better , or do not care to see things better . There are also men who are slightly disordered mentally , or who are cursed with a moral twist which makes them champion reforms less from a desire to do good to others than as a kind of ...
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Page 288 - There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build, and keep at a pitch of the highest training, a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.
Page 4 - 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 neither victory nor defeat.
Page 2 - 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 56 - No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
Page 20 - I preach to you, then, my countrymen, that our country calls not for the life of ease but for the life of strenuous endeavor.
Page 9 - We cannot sit huddled within our own borders and avow ourselves merely an assemblage of well-to-do hucksters who care nothing for what happens beyond.