The Strenuous Life: Essays and AddressesCentury Company, 1902 - 332 pages |
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... things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself , And this gray 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 ...
... things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself , And this gray 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 ...
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... things , is as little worthy of a nation as of an indi- vidual . I ask only that what every self- respecting American demands from himself and from his sons shall be demanded of the American nation as a whole . Who among you would teach ...
... things , is as little worthy of a nation as of an indi- vidual . I ask only that what every self- respecting American demands from himself and from his sons shall be demanded of the American nation as a whole . Who among you would teach ...
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... things , to win glorious triumphs , even though checkered by failure , than to take rank with those poor spirits who ... things , and war and strife the worst of all things , and had acted up to their belief , we would have saved ...
... things , to win glorious triumphs , even though checkered by failure , than to take rank with those poor spirits who ... things , and war and strife the worst of all things , and had acted up to their belief , we would have saved ...
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... and strove to cut down the number of men necessary to man our fleets . The men who did these things were one and all working to bring disaster on the country . They have no share in the glory of 12 THE STRENUOUS LIFE.
... and strove to cut down the number of men necessary to man our fleets . The men who did these things were one and all working to bring disaster on the country . They have no share in the glory of 12 THE STRENUOUS LIFE.
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... produce such a condition of things is fundamentally im- moral . Again , peace may come only through war . There are men in our country who seem- ingly forget that at the outbreak of the Civil War 28 EXPANSION AND PEACE.
... produce such a condition of things is fundamentally im- moral . Again , peace may come only through war . There are men in our country who seem- ingly forget that at the outbreak of the Civil War 28 EXPANSION AND PEACE.
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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.