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He [Lincoln] had mastered it {the Bible] absolutely...mastered it so that he became almost 'a man of one Book', who knew that Book and who instinctively put into practice what he had been taught therein.
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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The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it. Life is a great adventure, and I want to say to you, accept it in such a spirit.
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Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
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A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.
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Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves and we can shrink neither.
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It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.
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Yes, my friend, and if you will steal for me then you will steal from me.
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The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.
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I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.
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