 | 1906 - 474 pages
...delivered by him in Chicago, April 10, 1899, before the Hamilton Club, he used the following sentences : " I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...— 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... | |
 | 1906 - 810 pages
...know, Nor tamper with the weights of good and ill, TOM TAYLOR, Abraham Lincoln, st, 9 Strenuous, — I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrme of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labour and strife; to preach that highest... | |
 | James Morgan - 1907 - 408 pages
...strenuous life" in the tropics. — Inspiring the men on the canal with a new patriotic determination. " I WISH to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach the highest form of success, which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but... | |
 | James Morgan - 1907 - 404 pages
...strenuous life" in the tropics. — Inspiring the men on the canal with a new patriotic determination. "I WISH to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach the highest form of success, which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but... | |
 | Henry Louis Mencken - 1908 - 350 pages
...powerful statement of the dionysian philosophy ever made by anyone. " I wish to preach," it begins, " not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine...the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife: to preach the highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but... | |
 | 1909 - 136 pages
...If "that draft" does not arrive, Don't you fret ; you will survive ; Keep hustling. GEOEGE LOARTS. I WISH to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man... | |
 | 1909 - 136 pages
...If "that draft" does not arrive, Don't you fret; you will survive; Keep hustling. GEORGE I.OAllTS. I WISH to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1910 - 250 pages
...men of the State which gave ,. °' the ' b Strenuous to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who Life pre-eminently and distinctly embody all that is most...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... | |
 | 1910 - 444 pages
...1899, in a speech to the Hamilton Club, Chicago. These are the words in which he enunciates it : " I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...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... | |
 | Edwin Gordon Lawrence - 1911 - 376 pages
...an oration — action. The following extract is from a speech delivered at Chicago, April 10, 1899. IN speaking to you, men of the greatest city of the...the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form [111] of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace,... | |
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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... 
