Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young … have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
Author: Lewis Mumford | Source: The Art of Manliness | Subjects: Experience, Life & Society
When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
Author: Alexander Pope | Source: The Art of Manliness | Subject: Life & Society
A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally… We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
Author: Henry David Thoreau | Source: The Art of Manliness | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Personal Improvement
Here is a small treasury of excerpts from some of the addresses Theodore Roosevelt gave during his lifetime. When you look at anthologies of all his speeches, you find that the themes he hits in these selections were the ones he offered, with only slight alterations, over and over and over again, in every town and city he visited on country-crossing whistle stop tours. You’ll … [ Read more ]
Authors: Brett McKay, Kate McKay, Theodore Roosevelt | Source: The Art of Manliness (November 7, 2016) | Subjects: America, Articles & Links, Excerpts, History, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy