The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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... qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life . It is hard to fail , 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 ...
... qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life . It is hard to fail , 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 ...
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... qualities . If we are to be a really great people , we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world . We cannot avoid meeting great issues . All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ...
... qualities . If we are to be a really great people , we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world . We cannot avoid meeting great issues . All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ...
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... qualities of courage , of honesty , and of good judgment . Resistance must be stamped out . The first and all- important work to be done is to establish the supremacy of our flag . We must put down armed resistance before we can accom ...
... qualities of courage , of honesty , and of good judgment . Resistance must be stamped out . The first and all- important work to be done is to establish the supremacy of our flag . We must put down armed resistance before we can accom ...
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... qualities , and , in becoming overpeaceful , had lost the power of keeping peace with a strong hand . Their passing away marked the beginning of a period of chaotic barbarian warfare . Those whose memories are not so short as to have ...
... qualities , and , in becoming overpeaceful , had lost the power of keeping peace with a strong hand . Their passing away marked the beginning of a period of chaotic barbarian warfare . Those whose memories are not so short as to have ...
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... qualities are absolutely es- sential . The absence of either makes the presence of the other worthless or worse . If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and un- desirable , it is the tendency to deify ...
... qualities are absolutely es- sential . The absence of either makes the presence of the other worthless or worse . If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and un- desirable , it is the tendency to deify ...
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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.