The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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... spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star , Beyond the utmost bound of human thought . My mariners , Souls that have toil'd , and wrought , and thought with me- That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder ...
... spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star , Beyond the utmost bound of human thought . My mariners , Souls that have toil'd , and wrought , and thought with me- That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder ...
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... spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much , because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat . If in 1861 the men who loved the Union had believed that peace was the end of all things , and war and strife ...
... spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much , because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat . If in 1861 the men who loved the Union had believed that peace was the end of all things , and war and strife ...
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... spirit of gain and greed which recognizes in commercialism the be - all and end - all of national life , instead of realizing that , though an indispensable element , it is , after all , but one of the many elements that go to make up ...
... spirit of gain and greed which recognizes in commercialism the be - all and end - all of national life , instead of realizing that , though an indispensable element , it is , after all , but one of the many elements that go to make up ...
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... spirit . With a barbarous nation peace is the exceptional condition . On the border between civilization and barbarism war is generally normal because it must be under the conditions of barbarism . Whe- ther the barbarian be the Red ...
... spirit . With a barbarous nation peace is the exceptional condition . On the border between civilization and barbarism war is generally normal because it must be under the conditions of barbarism . Whe- ther the barbarian be the Red ...
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... spirit is more volatile and less sane , each little group grows until it becomes a power for evil , and , taken together , all the little groups give to French political life its curious , and by no means elevating , kaleidoscopic ...
... spirit is more volatile and less sane , each little group grows until it becomes a power for evil , and , taken together , all the little groups give to French political life its curious , and by no means elevating , kaleidoscopic ...
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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.