Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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About Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. Previously serving for six months as vice president under William McKinley, Roosevelt became president after McKinley's assassination in 1901. He was 42 years old upon his first inauguration, making him the youngest person to hold the office.
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I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
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.
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
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Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
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.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.