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"Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well."
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"The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?"
"It's not going to be easy, but it's kind of like ripping off a band-aid. Painful for a minute, but it has to be done."
"And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all they could, all they thought they could; which is not quite the same thing."
"They will cry, he will shout but you must sweat."
"For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!"
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"You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome."
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"I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life."
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"Indeed, it is a sign of marked political weakness in anycommonwealth if the people tend to be carried away by mere oratory, if theytend to value words in and for themselves, as divorced from the deeds for whichthey are supposed to stand. The phrase-maker, the phrase-monger, the readytalker, however great his power, whose speech does not make for courage,sobriety, and right understanding, is simply a noxious element in the bodypolitic, and it speaks ill for the public if he has influence over them. To admirethe gift of oratory without regard to the moral quality behind the gift is to dowrong to the republic."
"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."
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public."
"Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt."
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