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why, he is still entitled to a certain share of respect 

 because he has made the effort. But if he does not 

 make the effort, or if he makes it half-heartedly and 

 recoils from the labor, the risk, or the irksome mo 

 notony of his task, why, he has forfeited all right to 

 our respect, and has shown himself a mere cumberer 

 of the earth. It is not given to us all to succeed, but 

 it is given to us all to strive manfully to deserve suc 

 cess. 



We need, then, the iron qualities that must go with 

 true manhood. We need the positive virtues of reso 

 lution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to 

 do without shrinking the rough work that must al 

 ways be done, and to persevere through the long 

 days of slow progress or of seeming failure which 

 always come before any final triumph, no matter how 

 brilliant. But we need more than these qualities. 

 This country can not afford to have its sons less than 

 men; but neither can it afford to have them other 

 than good men. If courage and strength and intel 

 lect are unaccompanied by the moral purpose, the 

 moral sense, they become merely forms of expression 

 for unscrupulous force and unscrupulous cunning. 

 If the strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty 

 things his strength makes him only a curse to him 

 self and to his neighbor. All this is true in private 

 life, and it is no less true in public life. If Washing 

 ton and Lincoln had not had in them the whipcord 



