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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... "
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1914 - 1514 pages
...is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have. Speech. Springfield (Illinois). July 4, 1903. I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. Speech be/ore the Hamilton Club, Chicago. April 10, 1899. WILLIAM WATSON. 1858Hate and mistrust are...
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College and the Future: Essays for the Undergraduate on Problems of ...

Richard Ashley Rice - 1915 - 412 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,...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...
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Theodore Roosevelt: The Logic of His Career

Charles Grenfill Washburn - 1916 - 284 pages
...good in our political, business, and social life. The following is typical of much that he said: — I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...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...
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Theodore Roosevelt: The Logic of His Career

Charles Grenfill Washburn - 1916 - 284 pages
...good in our political, business, and social life. The following is typical of much that he said: — I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...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...
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Oral English: Or, The Art of Speaking

Antoinette Knowles - 1916 - 376 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,...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...
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Oral English and Public Speaking

Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1918 - 258 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,...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...
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Wartime and Patriotic Selections for Recitation and Reading

Carleton B. Case - 1918 - 174 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,...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...
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Peace and Patriotism: Selections from Poetry and Prose

Elva Sophronia Smith - 1919 - 326 pages
...STRENUOUS LIFE Extract from a speech on national questions at Chicago, April 10, 1899 THEODORE ROOSEVELT I WISH to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...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...
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Natural History, Volume 19

1919 - 824 pages
...you, 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,...the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach the highest form of success which comes ... to the man who does not shrink...
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High Points in the Work of the High Schools of New York City, Volume 26

New York (N.Y.). Board of Education - 1944 - 824 pages
...are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, are constitutional. — Marshall. 23. / wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease,...the strenuous life, 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...
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