There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTBlack care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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Politeness is a sign of dignity not subservience.
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena: whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
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When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
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Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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All the resources we need are in the mind.
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No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
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No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
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It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
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For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
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