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and the ice of pessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at 20。but as long asyour aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there’s hope you may dieyoung at 青春不是年華,而是心境;青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝,而是深沉的意志,恢宏的想象,炙熱的戀情;青春是生命的深泉在涌流。青春氣貫長虹,勇銳蓋過怯弱,進(jìn)取壓倒茍安。如此銳氣,二十后生而有之,六旬男子則更多見。年歲有加,并非垂老,理想丟棄,方墮暮年。歲月悠悠,衰微只及肌膚;熱忱拋卻,頹廢必致靈魂。憂煩,惶恐,喪失自信,定使心靈扭曲,意氣如灰。無論年屆花甲,擬或二八芳齡,心中皆有生命之歡樂,奇跡之誘惑,孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一臺天線,只要你從天上人間接受美好、希望、歡樂、勇氣和力量的信號,你就青春永駐,風(fēng)華常存。一旦天線下降,銳氣便被冰雪覆蓋,玩世不恭、自暴自棄油然而生,即使年方二十,實(shí)已垂垂老矣;然則只要樹起天線,捕捉樂觀信號,你就有望在八十高齡告別塵寰If I Rest, I RustThe significant inscription found on an old key“If I rest, I rust”would be anexcellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately, cannot do the work required of who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use, so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gate that guard the entrances to the professions, to science, art, literature, agricultureevery department of human keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of Hugh Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry, had devoted his evenings to rest and recreation, he would never have bee a famous celebrated mathematician, Edmund Stone, would never have published a mathematical dictionary, never have found the key to science of mathematics, if he had given his spare moments to idleness, had the little Scotch lad, Ferguson, allowed the busy brain to go to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string of beads, he would never have bee a famous vanquishes allnot inconstant, spasmodic, or illdirected labor。butfaithful, unremitting, daily effort toward a welldirected as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring ,我就會生銹在一把舊鑰匙上發(fā)現(xiàn)了一則意義深遠(yuǎn)的銘文——如果我休息,我就會生銹。對于那些懶散而煩惱的人來說,這將是至理名言。甚至最為勤勉的人也以此作為警示:如果一個人有才能而不用,就像廢棄鑰匙上的鐵一樣,這些才能就會很快生銹,并最終無法完成安排給自己的工作。有些人想取得偉人所獲得并保持的成就,他們就必須不斷運(yùn)用自身才能,以便開啟知識的大門,即那些通往人類努力探求的各個領(lǐng)域的大門,這些領(lǐng)域包括各種職業(yè):科學(xué),藝術(shù),文學(xué),農(nóng)業(yè)等。)勤奮使開啟成功寶庫的鑰匙保持光亮。如果休?米勒在采石場勞作一天后,晚上的時光用來休息消遣的話,他就不會成為名垂青史的地質(zhì)學(xué)家。著名數(shù)學(xué)家愛德蒙?斯通如果閑暇時無所事事,就不會出版數(shù)學(xué)詞典,也不會發(fā)現(xiàn)開啟數(shù)學(xué)之門的鑰匙。如果蘇格蘭青年弗格森在山坡上放羊時,讓他那思維活躍的大腦處于休息狀態(tài),而不是借助一串珠子計(jì)算星星的位置,他就不會成為著名的天文學(xué)家。勞動征服一切。這里所指的勞動不是斷斷續(xù)續(xù)的,間歇性的或方向偏差的勞動,而是堅(jiān)定的,不懈的,方向正確的每日勞動。正如要想擁有自由就要時刻保持警惕一樣,要想取得偉大的,持久的成功,就必須堅(jiān)持不懈地努力。AmbitionIt is not difficult to imagine a world short of would probably be a kinder world: with out demands, without abrasions, without would have time for work as they did would not be for themselves but for the would never enter would be eliminated, tension bee a thing of the stress of creation would be at an would no longer be troubling, but purely celebratory in its would be increased, for fewer people would die of heart attack or stroke caused by tumultuous would be would stretch on and on, with ambition long departed from the human , how unrelieved boring life wou