The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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Page 42
... quality of striving after the ideal , that is , the quality which makes men reformers , and the quality of so striving through practical methods - the quality which makes men efficient . Both 42 LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE.
... quality of striving after the ideal , that is , the quality which makes men reformers , and the quality of so striving through practical methods - the quality which makes men efficient . Both 42 LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE.
Page 44
... ideal , is utterly worthless . The cloistered virtue which tim- idly shrinks from all contact with the rough world ... ideal ; but the difference lies in the fact that the first is impracticable , not in his having a high ideal , for the ...
... ideal , is utterly worthless . The cloistered virtue which tim- idly shrinks from all contact with the rough world ... ideal ; but the difference lies in the fact that the first is impracticable , not in his having a high ideal , for the ...
Page 60
... ideal and the practicable , " he is amusingly unaware that he is writing his own condemnation , show- ing his own inability to do good work or to appreciate good work . The Constitutional Convention over which Washington presided , and ...
... ideal and the practicable , " he is amusingly unaware that he is writing his own condemnation , show- ing his own inability to do good work or to appreciate good work . The Constitutional Convention over which Washington presided , and ...
Page 61
... ideal and have striven mightily through practical methods to realize that ideal . There must be many compromises ; but we cannot com- promise with dishonesty , with sin . We must not be misled at any time by the cheap assertion that ...
... ideal and have striven mightily through practical methods to realize that ideal . There must be many compromises ; but we cannot com- promise with dishonesty , with sin . We must not be misled at any time by the cheap assertion that ...
Page 66
... ideal , displayed alike by the soldiers of both sides in the Civil War . We are all united now . We are all glad that the Union was restored , and are one in our loyalty to it ; and hand in hand with this general recognition of the all ...
... ideal , displayed alike by the soldiers of both sides in the Civil War . We are all united now . We are all glad that the Union was restored , and are one in our loyalty to it ; and hand in hand with this general recognition of the all ...
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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.