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Honesty first then courage then brains - and all are indispensable.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt
Age: 60 †
Born: 1858
Born: October 27
Died: 1919
Died: January 6
26Th U.S. President
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I regard the Masonic institution as one of the means ordained by the Supreme Architect to enable mankind to work out the problem of destiny to fight against, and overcome, the weaknesses and imperfections of his nature, and at last to attain to that true life of which death is the herald and the grave the portal.
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It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
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While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never hit soft.
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I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.
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A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.
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A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk.
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We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.
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Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.
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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
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I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.
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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
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There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition.
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Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
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Believe you can do it and you are halfway there
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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
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I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot — but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.
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