The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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... , but it is worse never to have tried to succeed . In this life we get nothing save by effort . Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been stored up effort in the past . A man can be freed from THE STRENUOUS LIFE.
... , but it is worse never to have tried to succeed . In this life we get nothing save by effort . Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been stored up effort in the past . A man can be freed from THE STRENUOUS LIFE.
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Essays and Addresses Theodore Roosevelt. in the past . A man can be freed from the necessity of work only by the fact that he or his fathers before him have worked to good purpose . If the freedom thus pur- chased is used aright , and ...
Essays and Addresses Theodore Roosevelt. in the past . A man can be freed from the necessity of work only by the fact that he or his fathers before him have worked to good purpose . If the freedom thus pur- chased is used aright , and ...
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... past have held a high 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 ...
... past have held a high 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 ...
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... past his- tory and present and future greatness of the whole country . Nobody is interested in the fact that Dewey comes from Vermont , Hobson from Alabama , or Funston from Kansas . If all three came from the same county it would make ...
... past his- tory and present and future greatness of the whole country . Nobody is interested in the fact that Dewey comes from Vermont , Hobson from Alabama , or Funston from Kansas . If all three came from the same county it would make ...
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... past primarily because the parties that con- trolled them divided along the lines of class , so that inevitably the triumph of one or the other implied the supremacy of a part over the whole . The result might be an oligarchy , or it ...
... past primarily because the parties that con- trolled them divided along the lines of class , so that inevitably the triumph of one or the other implied the supremacy of a part over the whole . The result might be an oligarchy , or it ...
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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.