The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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... 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 nation . We ...
... 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 nation . We ...
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... kind , whether as a writer or a general , whether in the field of politics or in the field of exploration and adventure , he shows he deserves his good fortune . But if he treats this period of freedom from the need of actual labor as a ...
... kind , whether as a writer or a general , whether in the field of politics or in the field of exploration and adventure , he shows he deserves his good fortune . But if he treats this period of freedom from the need of actual labor as a ...
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... kind . But our debt is yet greater to the men whose highest type is to be found in a statesman like Lincoln , a sol- dier like Grant . They showed by their lives that they recognized the law of work , the law of strife ; they toiled to ...
... kind . But our debt is yet greater to the men whose highest type is to be found in a statesman like Lincoln , a sol- dier like Grant . They showed by their lives that they recognized the law of work , the law of strife ; they toiled to ...
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... kind , national or individual , gives utter- ance to the feeling of the great majority of manly and thoughtful men when he de- nounces the great danger of indiscriminate advocacy of peace at any price , because " it may lead men to ...
... kind , national or individual , gives utter- ance to the feeling of the great majority of manly and thoughtful men when he de- nounces the great danger of indiscriminate advocacy of peace at any price , because " it may lead men to ...
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... kind of tribute to their own righteous- ness , for the sake of emphasizing their own superiority . From neither of these classes can we get any real help in the unending struggle for righteousness . There remains the great body of the ...
... kind of tribute to their own righteous- ness , for the sake of emphasizing their own superiority . From neither of these classes can we get any real help in the unending struggle for righteousness . There remains the great body of the ...
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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.