The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTDo what you can, with what you have, where you are.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
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The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
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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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The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.
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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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No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
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The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.
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A man’s usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
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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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A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
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No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
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Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.
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When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’.
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