The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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... prosperity which comes from thrift , from business energy and enterprise , from hard , unsparing effort in the fields of industrial activity ; but neither was any nation ever yet truly great if it relied upon material prosperity alone ...
... prosperity which comes from thrift , from business energy and enterprise , from hard , unsparing effort in the fields of industrial activity ; but neither was any nation ever yet truly great if it relied upon material prosperity alone ...
Page 62
... prosperity , no business acumen , no intellectual development of any kind , can atone in the life of a nation for the lack of the fundamental qualities of courage , hon- esty , and common sense . FELLOW - FEELING AS A POLITICAL FACTOR ...
... prosperity , no business acumen , no intellectual development of any kind , can atone in the life of a nation for the lack of the fundamental qualities of courage , hon- esty , and common sense . FELLOW - FEELING AS A POLITICAL FACTOR ...
Page 92
... prosperous , he is prosperous . the community be poor and hard - working , he shares the poverty and works as hard as any one . As fine a figure as I can call to mind is that of one such country clergyman in a poor farming community not ...
... prosperous , he is prosperous . the community be poor and hard - working , he shares the poverty and works as hard as any one . As fine a figure as I can call to mind is that of one such country clergyman in a poor farming community not ...
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... prosperity which must underlie national greatness ; but if this were the only kind of success , the nation would be indeed poorly off . Suc- cessful statesmen , soldiers , sailors , explorers , historians , poets , and scientific men ...
... prosperity which must underlie national greatness ; but if this were the only kind of success , the nation would be indeed poorly off . Suc- cessful statesmen , soldiers , sailors , explorers , historians , poets , and scientific men ...
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... prosperity and moral well - being . Let us ever most vividly remember the falsity of the belief that any one of us is to be per- manently benefited by the hurt of another . Let us strive to have our public men treat as 232 THE TWO AMERICAS.
... prosperity and moral well - being . Let us ever most vividly remember the falsity of the belief that any one of us is to be per- manently benefited by the hurt of another . Let us strive to have our public men treat as 232 THE TWO AMERICAS.
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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.