 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1920 - 424 pages
...victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor; who is prompt to help a 10 friend; but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. It is hard to fail; but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save... | |
 | Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - 1920 - 296 pages
...victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor; who is prompt to help a friend ; but who has the virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. It is hard to fail; but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save... | |
 | Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - 1922 - 360 pages
...victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor; who is prompt to help a 'friend; but who has the virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. It is hard to fail; but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save... | |
 | Edward Howe Cotton - 1923 - 360 pages
...victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor; who is prompt to help a friend, but who has also those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. r—THE STRENUOUS LIFE. CHAPTER XIV HIS FRIENDSHIPS Mr. Roosevelt was a person of vividly contrasted... | |
 | HERMANN HAGEDORN - 1923 - 340 pages
...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. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In the last analysis a healthy... | |
 | Edward Howe Cotton - 1923 - 362 pages
...victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor; who is prompt to help a friend, but who has also those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. •• — THE STRENUOUS LIFE. CHAPTER XIV HIS FRIENDSHIPS Mr. Roosevelt was a person of vividly contrasted... | |
 | John Louis Haney - 1923 - 484 pages
...victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor; who is prompt to help a friend; but who has the virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. It is hard to fail; but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save... | |
 | Emanuel Kanter - 1927 - 136 pages
...late Theodore Roosevelt, the discoverer of the doubtful river of doubt, was of like opinion. He said, "By war alone can we acquire those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern struggle of actual life." Nietzsche attempts to outbrazen them all in his eulogy of Mars. For he says:... | |
 | Lee Clark Mitchell - 1986 - 170 pages
...in the blood of our fathers" and called on his own generation to follow their example by embodying "those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life." The Civil War, he argued, placed "the mighty American republic once more as a helmeted queen among... | |
 | Robin W. Winks - 1993 - 596 pages
...affected the American mood as well. In war alone, said Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), could individuals "acquire those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life." We must take these quotations with a sense of the parodox that is inherent in humankind. Bagehot's points... | |
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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. 
