The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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... 135 143 · . 155 167 • . 189 207 229 245 263 • 279 . 301 321 MANHOOD AND STATEHOOD BROTHERHOOD AND THE HEROIC VIRTUES NATIONAL DUTIES · THE LABOR QUESTION CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP 1 1 THE STRENUOUS LIFE SPEECH BEFORE THE HAMILTON CLUB.
... 135 143 · . 155 167 • . 189 207 229 245 263 • 279 . 301 321 MANHOOD AND STATEHOOD BROTHERHOOD AND THE HEROIC VIRTUES NATIONAL DUTIES · THE LABOR QUESTION CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP 1 1 THE STRENUOUS LIFE SPEECH BEFORE THE HAMILTON CLUB.
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... labor and strife ; to preach that highest form of success which comes , not to the man who desires mere easy peace , but to the man who does not shrink from danger , from hardship , or from bitter toil , and who out of these wins the ...
... labor and strife ; to preach that highest form of success which comes , not to the man who desires mere easy peace , but to the man who does not shrink from danger , from hardship , or from bitter toil , and who out of these wins the ...
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... labor as a period , not of prepara- tion , but of mere enjoyment , even though perhaps not of vicious enjoyment , he shows that he is simply a cumberer of the earth's surface , and he surely unfits himself to hold his own with his ...
... labor as a period , not of prepara- tion , but of mere enjoyment , even though perhaps not of vicious enjoyment , he shows that he is simply a cumberer of the earth's surface , and he surely unfits himself to hold his own with his ...
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... labor , or a philanthropist in whom zeal and judgment balance each other , may know far more than most politicians . But the fact remains that the effect of political life , and of the associ- ations that it brings , is of very great ...
... labor , or a philanthropist in whom zeal and judgment balance each other , may know far more than most politicians . But the fact remains that the effect of political life , and of the associ- ations that it brings , is of very great ...
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... those about him . Tried by this standard , the religious teach- ers of the community stand most honorably high . It is probable that no other class of our citizens do anything like the amount of disinterested labor 91 V.
... those about him . Tried by this standard , the religious teach- ers of the community stand most honorably high . It is probable that no other class of our citizens do anything like the amount of disinterested labor 91 V.
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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.