A Week in the White House with Theodore Roosevelt: A Study of the President at the Nation's BusinessG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908 - 153 pages |
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... Genius " -Washington , Lincoln , the Average Man , and Lead- ership - How Seeming Impetuosity may Really Be Reasoned , and Seem- ing Rashness Really Patience - The Fun of Being President . PAGE • 142 1 ILLUSTRATIONS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ...
... Genius " -Washington , Lincoln , the Average Man , and Lead- ership - How Seeming Impetuosity may Really Be Reasoned , and Seem- ing Rashness Really Patience - The Fun of Being President . PAGE • 142 1 ILLUSTRATIONS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ...
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... genius for acquisition , the acquisition of information , ever lived . He has an infinite passion for facts ; an insatiable thirst for information ; he lays violent hands on any detail the existence of which he gets wind of . Every ...
... genius for acquisition , the acquisition of information , ever lived . He has an infinite passion for facts ; an insatiable thirst for information ; he lays violent hands on any detail the existence of which he gets wind of . Every ...
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... genius , that he does not recognise in himself the faintest scintillation of genius . In this he is over - modest . It is genius to Dr. Roosevelt 137.
... genius , that he does not recognise in himself the faintest scintillation of genius . In this he is over - modest . It is genius to Dr. Roosevelt 137.
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... genius to un- derstand the average man . To repre- sent absolutely the average man , to contain within one's own soul all that is common to humanity , its common knowledge , instincts , hopes , fears , as- pirations , and to contain ...
... genius to un- derstand the average man . To repre- sent absolutely the average man , to contain within one's own soul all that is common to humanity , its common knowledge , instincts , hopes , fears , as- pirations , and to contain ...
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... genius not to advance out of the understanding of the average man in any particular . He eschews , by instinct , the refinements of the idealistic reformer , the speculative philosopher . He never allows the world of average men to ...
... genius not to advance out of the understanding of the average man in any particular . He eschews , by instinct , the refinements of the idealistic reformer , the speculative philosopher . He never allows the world of average men to ...
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Page 10 - MASTER of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace — soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, . And...
Page 10 - Master of human destinies am I: Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait, Cities and fields I walk ! I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace — soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate. If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before I turn away, it is the hour of fate...
Page 44 - You don't smile with Mr. Roosevelt; you shout with laughter with him, and then you shout again while he tries to cork up more laugh and sputters ; 'Come gentlemen, let us be serious'.
Page 10 - If sleeping, wake: if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death: but those who doubt or hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury and woe, Seek me in vain and uselessly implore. I answer not, and I return no more!
Page 125 - ... at all, — nor do they so much as think of it, their minds being intent upon that employ they are in, either the delight or diligence of the soul getting the mastery over all other desires. Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much business stirring ? It may truly be asked concerning a man that is either of public employ or a scholar, What time can such a...
Page 15 - ... condition to-day ; his face clear, his weight I should say wellnigh a stone less than was his habit back of a year ago. Look at him as he stands and you will see that he is rigid as a soldier on parade. His chin is in, his chest out. The line from the back of his head falls straight as a plumb-line to his heels. Never for a moment, while he is on his feet, does that line so much as waver, that neck unbend.