The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTBe practical as well as generous in your ideals.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.
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Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.
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Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.
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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.
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Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.
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If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
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There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.
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Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
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When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
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The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
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The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.
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It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don’t know anything outside their own business.
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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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I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
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We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources.
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