The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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... CHARACTER AND SUCCESS · THE EIGHTH AND NINTH COMMANDMENTS IN POLITICS • THE BEST AND THE GOOD PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE THE AMERICAN BOY • MILITARY PREPAREDNESS AND UNPREPARED- NESS ADMIRAL DEWEY GRANT . THE TWO AMERICAS 91 113 125 ...
... CHARACTER AND SUCCESS · THE EIGHTH AND NINTH COMMANDMENTS IN POLITICS • THE BEST AND THE GOOD PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE THE AMERICAN BOY • MILITARY PREPAREDNESS AND UNPREPARED- NESS ADMIRAL DEWEY GRANT . THE TWO AMERICAS 91 113 125 ...
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... character , I wish to preach , not the doctrine of ignoble ease , but the doctrine of the strenuous life , the life of toil and effort , of labor and strife ; to preach that highest form of success which comes , not to the man who ...
... character , I wish to preach , not the doctrine of ignoble ease , but the doctrine of the strenuous life , the life of toil and effort , of labor and strife ; to preach that highest form of success which comes , not to the man who ...
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... character there is not an element of hardened baseness must ad- mit the need in our public life of those qual- ities which we somewhat vaguely group together when we speak of " reform , ” and all men of sound mind must also admit the ...
... character there is not an element of hardened baseness must ad- mit the need in our public life of those qual- ities which we somewhat vaguely group together when we speak of " reform , ” and all men of sound mind must also admit the ...
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... character frequently try to cover their misconduct by fervent protesta- tions of love of country . Nevertheless , the fact remains that exactly as true patriots should be especially jealous of any appeal to what is base under the guise ...
... character frequently try to cover their misconduct by fervent protesta- tions of love of country . Nevertheless , the fact remains that exactly as true patriots should be especially jealous of any appeal to what is base under the guise ...
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... character . Macaulay's eminently sane and wholesome spirit and his knowledge of practical affairs give him a peculiar value among historians of political thought . In speaking of Scot- land at the end of the seventeenth century he ...
... character . Macaulay's eminently sane and wholesome spirit and his knowledge of practical affairs give him a peculiar value among historians of political thought . In speaking of Scot- land at the end of the seventeenth century he ...
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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.