The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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Page 28
... social world ; and to condemn all war is just as logical as to con- demn all business and all social relations , as to condemn love and marriage because of the frightful misery caused by brutal and unreg- ulated passion . If Russia had ...
... social world ; and to condemn all war is just as logical as to con- demn all business and all social relations , as to condemn love and marriage because of the frightful misery caused by brutal and unreg- ulated passion . If Russia had ...
Page 41
... social reform in her village : " I don't know that I think they are so much above us as too far to one side . Sometimes it is longitude and sometimes it is latitude that separates people . " This is true , and the philosophy it teaches ...
... social reform in her village : " I don't know that I think they are so much above us as too far to one side . Sometimes it is longitude and sometimes it is latitude that separates people . " This is true , and the philosophy it teaches ...
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... clergymen and laymen , reformers who strive for reform in the field of politics , in the field of philanthropy , in the field of social life ; and we could count on the fingers of one hand the 50 LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE.
... clergymen and laymen , reformers who strive for reform in the field of politics , in the field of philanthropy , in the field of social life ; and we could count on the fingers of one hand the 50 LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE.
Page 51
... social life a little better , to make the conditions that bear upon the un- fortunate a little easier ; the man who de- mands the immediate impossible in temper- ance is not the man who ever aids in an effort to minimize the evils ...
... social life a little better , to make the conditions that bear upon the un- fortunate a little easier ; the man who de- mands the immediate impossible in temper- ance is not the man who ever aids in an effort to minimize the evils ...
Page 57
... social and civic reform ; the man who is keenly interested in some university settlement , some civic club or citizens ' association which is striving to elevate the standard of life . We need clean , healthy newspapers , with clean ...
... social and civic reform ; the man who is keenly interested in some university settlement , some civic club or citizens ' association which is striving to elevate the standard of life . We need clean , healthy newspapers , with clean ...
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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.