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All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

John Taliaferro

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt”

“When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay”

“The poet is poor, but the orator is made by cultivation." Horace”

“The author observes that the friendship of John Hay and Charles Francis Adams benefited from a physical distance that required correspondence, meaning that feelings only implied in person had to be explicitly expressed.”

“The Admiral so regrets failure, he cannot THINK of success.”

“My natural pessimism now works on Hay's natural pessimism until we are both quite out of our minds." Henry Adams”

“John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.”

“John Hay on Lincoln: "He always worked with things as they were, while never relinquishing the desire to make them better.”

“John Hay indicates that dealing with people directly as a holder of political office "requires a stronger heart and a more obedient nervous system than I possess.”

“In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. – Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay”

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