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... Improvement Era - Page 641901Full 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
...Grant, men who pre-eminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires more easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger,... | |
| New York (State). Governor (1899-1901 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt - 1899 - 352 pages
...Grant, men who pre-eminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...strife ; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires more easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger,... | |
| Theodore Roosevelt - 1901 - 302 pages
...Grant, men who pre-eminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...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,... | |
| Bp. Samuel Fallows, Samuel Fallows - 1901 - 550 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...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... | |
| Charles Eugene Banks, Le Roy Armstrong - 1901 - 480 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,...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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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 Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George Henry Warner - 1902 - 512 pages
...through the book: <( I wish," says the author, "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... | |
| Murat Halstead - 1902 - 496 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 strenuous life ; the life of toil and effort ; of labor and strife ; to preach that highest form of... | |
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