The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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Page 6
... ourselves only with the wants of our bodies for the day , until suddenly we should find , beyond a shadow of question , what China has already found , that in this world the nation that has trained itself to a career of unwarlike and ...
... ourselves only with the wants of our bodies for the day , until suddenly we should find , beyond a shadow of question , what China has already found , that in this world the nation that has trained itself to a career of unwarlike and ...
Page 9
... ourselves merely an as- semblage of well - to - do hucksters who care nothing for what happens beyond . Such a policy would defeat even its own end ; for as the nations grow to have ever wider and wider interests , and are brought into ...
... ourselves merely an as- semblage of well - to - do hucksters who care nothing for what happens beyond . Such a policy would defeat even its own end ; for as the nations grow to have ever wider and wider interests , and are brought into ...
Page 10
... ourselves equal to one of the great tasks set modern civilization . But let us not deceive ourselves as to the importance of the task . Let us not be misled by vainglory into underestimating the strain it will put on our powers . Above ...
... ourselves equal to one of the great tasks set modern civilization . But let us not deceive ourselves as to the importance of the task . Let us not be misled by vainglory into underestimating the strain it will put on our powers . Above ...
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... ourselves fearful of performing . But , as it is , this country will keep the islands and will establish therein a stable and orderly government , so that one more fair spot of the world's surface shall have been snatched from the ...
... ourselves fearful of performing . But , as it is , this country will keep the islands and will establish therein a stable and orderly government , so that one more fair spot of the world's surface shall have been snatched from the ...
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... ourselves , or agreed among ourselves , not because we had different occupations or the same oc- cupation , but because of our ways of look- ing at life . It is this capacity for sympathy , for fellow - feeling and mutual understanding ...
... ourselves , or agreed among ourselves , not because we had different occupations or the same oc- cupation , but because of our ways of look- ing at life . It is this capacity for sympathy , for fellow - feeling and mutual understanding ...
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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.