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Manhood and the Blackbird

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A Man's Usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals in so far as he can. It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. All daring & courage, all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer and nobler type of manhood : A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one

This is one of many engravings found at Theodore Roosevelt Island, all of them quotes of the late President, layered under a line from a Wallace Stevens poem, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, written in blue marker on a bathroom stall in the Walsh building on Georgetown's campus. 

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