【正文】 星火書業(yè) 晨讀英語美文100篇六級Passage 1. knowledge and VirtueKnowledge is one thing, virtue is another。good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility,nor is largeness and justness of view , however enlightened, however profound,gives no mand over the passions, no influential motives, no vivifying Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the is well to be a gentleman,it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste,a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind,a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life—these are the connatural qualities of a large knowledge。they are the objects of a am advocating, I shall illustrate and insist upon them。but still, I repeat, they are no guarantee for sanctity or even for conscientiousness,and they may attach to the man of the world, to the profligate,to the heartless, pleasant, alas, and attractive as he shows when decked out in by themselves, they do but seem to be what they are not。they look like virtue at a distance, but they are detected by close observers, and in the long run。and hence it is that they are popularly accused of pretense and hypocrisy,not, I repeat, from their own fault,but because their professors and their admirers persist in taking them for what they are not,and are officious in arrogating for them a praise to which they have no the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk,then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledgeand human reason to contend against those giants, Passage 2. “Packing” a PersonA person, like a modity, needs going too far is absolutely little exaggeration, however, does no harmwhen it shows the person39。s unique qualities to their display personal charm in a casual and natural way,it is important for one to have a clear knowledge of master packager knows how to integrate art and nature without any traces of embellishment,so that the person so packaged is no modity but a human being, lively and young person, especially a female, radiant with beauty and full of life,has all the favor granted by attempt to make up would be , however, es and goes in a moment of for the middleaged is primarily to conceal the furrows ploughed by you still enjoy life39。s exuberance enough to retain selfconfidenceand pursue pioneering work, you are unique in your natural qualities,and your charm and grace will people are beautiful if their river of life has been,through plains, mountains and jungles, running its course as it have really lived your life which now arrives at a placent stage of serenityindifferent to fame or is no need to resort to hairdyeing；the snowcapped mountain is itself a beautiful scene of your looks change from young to old synchronizing with the natural ageing processso as to keep in harmony with nature, for harmony itself is beauty,while the other way round will only end in be in the elder39。s pany is like reading a thick book of deluxe editionthat fascinates one so much as to be reluctant to part long as one finds where one stands, one knows how to package oneself,just as a modity establishes its brand by the right packaging.Passage 3. Three Passions I Have Lived forThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life:the longing for love, the search for knowledge,and unbearable pity for the suffering of passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither,in a wayward course over a deep ocean of anguish,reaching to the very verge of have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy—ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of my lifefor a few hours for this have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness—that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousnesslooks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen,in a mystic miniature,the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life,this is what—at last—I have equal passion I have sought have wished to understand the hearts of have wished to know why the stars shine ...A little of this, but not much, I have and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the always pity brought me back to of cries of pain reverberate in my in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people—a hated burden to their sons,and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too has been my have found it worth living, and would gladly live it againif the chance were offered me.Passage 4. A Little GirlSitting on a grassy grave, beneath one of the windows of the church, was a little her head bent back she was gazing up at the sky and singing,while one of her little hands was pointing to a tiny cloudthat hovered like a golden feather above her sun, which had suddenly bee very bright, shining on her glossy hair,gave it a metallic luster, and it was difficult to say what was the color, dark bronze or pletely absorbed was she in watching the cloud to which her strange song or incantation seemed addressed,that she did not observe me when I rose and went towards her head, high up in the blue,a lark that was soaring towards the same gauzy cloud was singing, as if in I slowly approached the child,I could see by her forehead, which in the sunshine seemed like a globe of pearl,and especially by her plexion, that she unmonly eyes, which at one moment seemed bluegray, at another violet,were shaded by long black lashes, curving backward in a most peculiar way,and these matched in hue her eyebrows,and the tresses that were tossed about her tender throat were quivering in the this I did not take in at once。for at first I could see nothing but those quivering, glittering, changeful eyes turned up into my the other features, especial