Roosevelt's Writings: Selections from the Writings of Theodore RooseveltMacmillan, 1920 - 365 pages |
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... plains . The back- woodsmen of Pennsylvania had little in common with the peaceful population of Quakers and Germans who lived between the Delaware and the Susquehanna ; and 10 their near kinsmen of the Blue Ridge and the Great Smoky ...
... plains . The back- woodsmen of Pennsylvania had little in common with the peaceful population of Quakers and Germans who lived between the Delaware and the Susquehanna ; and 10 their near kinsmen of the Blue Ridge and the Great Smoky ...
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... plains felt when they came to the backwoods as if their heads were hooded . Save on the border of a lake , from a cliff - top , or on a bald knob - that is , a bare hill - shoulder , they could not anywhere look out for any distance ...
... plains felt when they came to the backwoods as if their heads were hooded . Save on the border of a lake , from a cliff - top , or on a bald knob - that is , a bare hill - shoulder , they could not anywhere look out for any distance ...
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... plain and clear . The man was the armed protector and provider , the bread- winner ; the woman was the housewife and child - bearer . They married young and their families were large , for they were strong and healthy , and their ...
... plain and clear . The man was the armed protector and provider , the bread- winner ; the woman was the housewife and child - bearer . They married young and their families were large , for they were strong and healthy , and their ...
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... plain , sometimes ornamented . It was generally bored out - or , as the expression then was , 15 " sawed out " -to carry a ball of seventy , more rarely of thirty or forty , to the pound ; and was usually of backwoods manufacture . The ...
... plain , sometimes ornamented . It was generally bored out - or , as the expression then was , 15 " sawed out " -to carry a ball of seventy , more rarely of thirty or forty , to the pound ; and was usually of backwoods manufacture . The ...
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... plain people , the ordinary men and women , of the time of which he writes . He can do this only if he possesses the highest kind of imagination . Collections of figures no more give us a picture of the past than the 20 reading of a ...
... plain people , the ordinary men and women , of the time of which he writes . He can do this only if he possesses the highest kind of imagination . Collections of figures no more give us a picture of the past than the 20 reading of a ...
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Page 220 - ... spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly...
Page 220 - ... and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.— Theodore Roosevelt.
Page 234 - They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar to all, and revered by all, constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere.
Page 167 - 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 166 - 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 who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 180 - The men with the muckrakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them, to the crown of worthy endeavor.
Page 168 - 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 not victory nor defeat.
Page 178 - An epidemic of indiscriminate assault upon character does no good, but very great harm. The soul of every scoundrel is gladdened whenever an honest man is assailed, or even when a scoundrel is untruthfully assailed. Now, it is easy to twist out of shape what I have just said, easy to affect to misunderstand it, and, if it is slurred over in repetition, not difficult really to misunderstand it.
Page 354 - Interpreter takes them apart again and has them first into a room, where was a man that could look no way but downwards, with a muck-rake in his hand. There stood also one, over his head, with a celestial crown in his hand, and proffered...
Page 177 - Pilgrim's Progress" you may recall the description of the Man with the Muck-rake, the man who could look no way but downward, with the muck-rake in his hand ; who was offered a celestial crown for his muck-rake, but who would neither look up nor regard the crown he was offered, but continued to rake to himself the filth of the floor.