The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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... carry on some kind of non - remunerative work in science , in letters , in art , in exploration , in historical research - work of the type we most need in this country , the successful carrying out of which reflects most honor upon the ...
... carry on some kind of non - remunerative work in science , in letters , in art , in exploration , in historical research - work of the type we most need in this country , the successful carrying out of which reflects most honor upon the ...
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... carried the great Civil War to a triumphant conclusion , praise the God of our fathers that the ignoble counsels of peace were rejected ; that the suffering and loss , the blackness of sorrow and despair , were unflinchingly faced , and ...
... carried the great Civil War to a triumphant conclusion , praise the God of our fathers that the ignoble counsels of peace were rejected ; that the suffering and loss , the blackness of sorrow and despair , were unflinchingly faced , and ...
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... themselves . Some stronger , manlier power would have to step in and do the work , and we would have shown ourselves weaklings , unable to carry to successful completion the labors that great and high - THE STRENUOUS LIFE 9.
... themselves . Some stronger , manlier power would have to step in and do the work , and we would have shown ourselves weaklings , unable to carry to successful completion the labors that great and high - THE STRENUOUS LIFE 9.
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... of the prattlers who sit at home in peace . The army and the navy are the sword and the shield which this nation must carry if she is to do her duty among the nations of 9 the earth - if she is not to stand THE STRENUOUS LIFE 15.
... of the prattlers who sit at home in peace . The army and the navy are the sword and the shield which this nation must carry if she is to do her duty among the nations of 9 the earth - if she is not to stand THE STRENUOUS LIFE 15.
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... carried out , would make it incumbent upon us to leave the Apaches of Arizona to work out their own salvation , and to decline to interfere in a single Indian reservation . Their doctrines condemn your forefathers and mine for ever ...
... carried out , would make it incumbent upon us to leave the Apaches of Arizona to work out their own salvation , and to decline to interfere in a single Indian reservation . Their doctrines condemn your forefathers and mine for ever ...
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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.