 I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man...  Natural History - Page 331919Full view - About this book
 | 1922 - 772 pages
...theory. Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans upon his hoe. Laugh and the world laughs with you. I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. The gods are growing old. An irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces. "I must rescue... | |
 | New York (State). Governor - 1899 - 356 pages
...men of the greatest city of the West, men of the State which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who pre-eminently and distinctly embody all that...of toil and effort; of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires more easy peace, but to the man... | |
 | New York (State). Governor (1899-1901 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt - 1899 - 352 pages
...men of the greatest city of the West, men of the State which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who pre-eminently and distinctly embody all that...toil and effort ; of labor and strife ; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires more easy peace, but to the man... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1901 - 302 pages
...men of the greatest city of the West, men of the State which gave to the country Lincoln and. Grant, men who pre-eminently and distinctly embody all that...of toil and effort, of labor and strife ; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man... | |
 | Charles Eugene Banks, Le Roy Armstrong - 1901 - 480 pages
...men of the greatest city of the West, men of the State which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that...of toil and effort; of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man... | |
 | Bp. Samuel Fallows, Samuel Fallows - 1901 - 550 pages
...men of the greatest city of the West, men of the State which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that...of toil and effort; of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man... | |
 | Edward T. Roe - 1901 - 406 pages
...on April II, 1899, when he delivered his famous address, from which we quote the following: "... I preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine...the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife. ... I ask only that what every self-respecting American demands from himself, and from his sons, shall... | |
 | Murat Halstead - 1902 - 496 pages
...men of the greatest city of the West, men of the State which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that...the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life ; the life of toil and effort ; of labor and strife ; to preach that highest form of... | |
 | Helen Mathers - 1902 - 344 pages
...tremendously," she went on warmly. " ' I wish to preach,' he said, with snapping teeth and blazing eyes, ' not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine...the Strenuous Life, the life of toil and effort, of labour and strife — to preach that highest form of success, which comes, not to the man who desires... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1902 - 714 pages
...men of the greatest city of the West, men of the State which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who pre-eminently and distinctly embody all that...toil and effort ; of labor and strife ; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man... | |
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