The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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... 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 not victory nor defeat ...
... 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 not victory nor defeat ...
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... mighty days , let us , the children of the men who carried the great Civil War to a triumphant conclusion , praise the God of our fathers that the ignoble counsels of peace were rejected ; that the suffering and loss , the blackness of ...
... mighty days , let us , the children of the men who carried the great Civil War to a triumphant conclusion , praise the God of our fathers that the ignoble counsels of peace were rejected ; that the suffering and loss , the blackness of ...
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... mighty lift that thrills " stern men with empires in their brains " -all these , of course , shrink from seeing the nation undertake its new duties ; shrink from seeing us build a navy and an army adequate to our needs ; shrink from ...
... mighty lift that thrills " stern men with empires in their brains " -all these , of course , shrink from seeing the nation undertake its new duties ; shrink from seeing us build a navy and an army adequate to our needs ; shrink from ...
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... mighty nations . But the peoples that do not expand leave , and can leave , nothing behind them . It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world . The Arab wrecked the civilization of the Medi ...
... mighty nations . But the peoples that do not expand leave , and can leave , nothing behind them . It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world . The Arab wrecked the civilization of the Medi ...
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... mighty civilized races which have not lost the fighting instinct , and which by their ex- pansion are gradually bringing peace into the red wastes where the barbarian peoples of the world hold sway . LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE AMONG ...
... mighty civilized races which have not lost the fighting instinct , and which by their ex- pansion are gradually bringing peace into the red wastes where the barbarian peoples of the world hold sway . LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE AMONG ...
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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.