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John Hay

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John Hay Quotes

Total quotes: 2

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John Hay

Birthname

AKA: John Hay

Birthday: October 8, 1838

Death: July 1, 1905

Educated At: Brown University

Political Parties: Republican Party

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Journalist, Diplomat, Biographer, Writer

Total quotes: 2

“In many respects, he was doomed to a certain loneliness of excellence. Few men that ever lived have had his stern and tyrannous sense of duty, his womanly tenderness of heart, his wakeful and inflexible conscience, which was so easy towards others and so merciless towards himself. Therefore when the time came for all of these qualities at once to be put to the most strenuous proof, the whole course of his development and tendency of his nature made it inevitable that his suffering should be of the keenest and his final triumph over himself should be of the most complete and signal character. in that struggle his youth of reveries and day dreams passed away. Such furnace blasts of proof, such pangs of transformation seem necessary for exceptional natures.”

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

Tagged: Will

“His life was very much his own, but now it had more gravity and perhaps even a compass.”

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

Tagged: Life

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