The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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Page 3
... exist only when the men and women who make it up 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 ...
... exist only when the men and women who make it up 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 ...
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... exist . A compromise which results in a half - step to- ward evil is all wrong , just as the opportu- nist who saves himself for the moment by adopting a policy which is fraught with future disaster is all wrong ; but no less wrong is ...
... exist . A compromise which results in a half - step to- ward evil is all wrong , just as the opportu- nist who saves himself for the moment by adopting a policy which is fraught with future disaster is all wrong ; but no less wrong is ...
Page 55
... exist in num- bers in New York , and work evil in our public life for the very reason that Macau- lay gives . They do not do practical work , and the extreme folly of their position makes them not infrequently the allies of scoundrels ...
... exist in num- bers in New York , and work evil in our public life for the very reason that Macau- lay gives . They do not do practical work , and the extreme folly of their position makes them not infrequently the allies of scoundrels ...
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... exist only in a very fluid state . In most European coun- tries classes are separated by rigid boun- daries , which can be crossed but rarely , and with the utmost difficulty and peril . Here the boundaries cannot properly be said to exist ...
... exist only in a very fluid state . In most European coun- tries classes are separated by rigid boun- daries , which can be crossed but rarely , and with the utmost difficulty and peril . Here the boundaries cannot properly be said to exist ...
Page 82
... exist in seemingly unlikely persons . If he intends to carry a caucus or primary , or elect a given candidate , or secure a certain piece of legis- lation or administration , he will have to find out and work with innumerable allies ...
... exist in seemingly unlikely persons . If he intends to carry a caucus or primary , or elect a given candidate , or secure a certain piece of legis- lation or administration , he will have to find out and work with innumerable allies ...
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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.