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... American Boys' Life of Theodore Roosevelt - Page 201by Edward Stratemeyer - 1904 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1906 - 462 pages
...the satisfaction they are giving. The Birmingham Convention of Master House Painters and Decorators. "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease...desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardships, or from bitter toil and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate... | |
| 1906 - 594 pages
...Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the etrenuous life — the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife ; to preach that highest form of... | |
| 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 - 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,...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 to the man... | |
| 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,...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 to the man... | |
| 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...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 to the man... | |
| 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 who Life pre-eminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...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... | |
| 1910 - 444 pages
...Hamilton Club of Chicago in 1899. Here is the sentence which contained his dogma of the "strenuous life" : "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...strife ; to preach that highest form of success which conies, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger,... | |
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