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tance bequeathed to us by former wise or valiant men bees a rich estate to be enjoyed and used by all. 英譯中練習(xí)3 In a calm sea every man is a pilot. But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not life at all. Take the lot of the happiest it is a tangled yarn. Bereavements and blessings, one following another, make us sad and blessed by turns. Even death itself makes life more loving. Men e closest to their true selves in the sober moments of life, under the shadows of sorrow and loss. In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as selfcontrol, patience, and discipline, regulated by judgment. I have always believed that the man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. In an age of extravagance and waste, I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are.To regret one39。 and with it such perfect control over all his organs, such marvelous certitude in all his motions, as to be able to drop himself plumb down from the tallest treetop , or out of the void air , on to a slender spray , and scarcely cause its leaves to tremble . Now , on this morning , he lies stiff and motionless 。s beam, till at last the whole little city twinkled and sparkled up in the sky like a nest of stars 英譯中練習(xí)7Some people insist that only today and tomorrow how much poorer we would be if we really lived by that rule! So much of what we do today is frivolous and futile and soon much of what we hope to do tomorrow never happens. The past is the bank in which we store our most valuable possession: the memories that give meaning and depth to our who truly treasure the past will not bemoan the passing of the good old days,because days en