【正文】 h to get new things,whether clothes or 8 friends,Turn the old,return to do not change。愛找缺點(diǎn)的人就是到天堂里也能找到缺點(diǎn)。我只看到，一個(gè)從容的人，在哪里也像在 皇宮中一樣，生活得心滿意足而富有愉快的思想。視貧窮如園中之花而像圣人一樣耕植它吧！不要找新的花樣，無論是新的朋友或新的衣服，來麻煩你自己。 Build Me a Son General Douglas A. MacArthur Build me a son, Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid。 Lead him I pray, not in the path of ease and fort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here let him learn to stand up in the storm。 one who will learn to laugh, yet never fet how to weep。 ” The pleasant family When in an hour they crowded into a cab to go home， I strolled idly to my club. I was perhaps a little lonely， and it was with a touch of envy that I thought of the pleasant family life of which I had had a glimpse. They seemed devoted to one another. They had little private jokes of their own which， unintelligible to the outsider， amused them enormously. Perhaps Charles Strickland was dull judged by a standard that demanded above all things verbal scintillation； but his intelligence was adequate to his surroundings， and that is a passport， not only to reasonable success， but still more to happiness. Mrs. Strickland was a charming woman， and she loved him. I pictured their lives， troubled by no untoward adventure， honest， decent， and， by reason of those two upstanding， pleasant children， so obviously destined to carry on the normal traditions of their race and station， not without significance. They would grow old insensibly； they would see their son and daughter e to years of reason， marry in due course —— the one a pretty girl， future mother of healthy children； the other a handsome， manly fellow， obviously a soldier； and at last， prosperous in their dignified retirement， beloved by their descendants， after a happy， not unuseful life， in the fullness of their age they would sink into the grave. —— Excerpt from the Moon and Sixpennce by W. Somerset Maugham 一個(gè)鐘頭以后，這一家擠上一輛馬車回家去了，我也一個(gè)人懶散地往俱樂部踱去。如果純粹從善于辭令這一角度衡量一個(gè)人的智慧，也許查理斯。在不知不覺間，他們倆的年紀(jì)越來越老，兒女卻逐漸長(zhǎng)大成人，到了一定的年齡，就會(huì)結(jié)婚成家 —— 一個(gè)已經(jīng)出息成美麗的姑娘，將來還會(huì)生育活潑健康的孩子；另一個(gè)則是儀 表堂堂的男子漢，顯然會(huì)成為一名軍人。s conception, a wounding insult, a sudden death. Depending on how we think of them, our lives can be infinitely long or infinitely short. Youth is not a time of life。 it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of theappetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. 11 Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the , fear, selfdistrust bows the heart and turns the spring back to dust. Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder,the unfailing childlike appetite of what’s next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young. When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80. 青春 塞繆爾 年歲有加，并非垂老，理想丟棄，方墮暮年。人人心中皆有一臺(tái)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(hào)，你就青春永駐，風(fēng)華常存。 it lends solidity to your slumbers, it gives you a perfect and grateful appreciation of a holiday. There are young men who do not work, but the world is not proud of them. It does not know their names, even it simply speaks of them as “old SoandSo’s boy”. Nobody likes them。偉大，繁忙的世界不知道他們?cè)谀抢?。s finger in a map, to bring the stars near, to view the smallest insects in a microscope, to read history and witness the revolutions of empirees and the succession of generations ,to hear the gloryof Sidon and Tyre of Babylon and Susa,as of a fade pegeant,anf ti say all these wereand are now nothing. to think that we exist in such a point of time, and in such a corner of space,to be at once spectators and a part of the moving scene to watch the return of the seasons, of spring and autumn, to hear 13 The stock dove plain amid the forest deep, That drowsy rustles to the sighing gale. to traverse desert wildness, to listen to thedungeon39。 stoop to flattery, and you conciliate their friendship and esteem. They bear hunger, cold, fatigue, and all the miseries of life without shrinking, danger only calls forth their fortitude。 nib, No. 314, made by R. Esterbrook and Co. in England, who supply the Midland Bank with pennibs, from whom I got it— a gift, I may say, but behind this nib there is the whole process of manufacture. In fact a pen nib implies of universe, and the history of it implies its history. We may regard this way of looking at it— history as the timeaspect of all things: a pennib, the universe, the fiddled before me as I write, as a relative conception of history. There is, secondly, what we mat call a substantive conception of history, what we usually mean by it, history proper as a subject of study in itself. Excerpt from The Use of History by the study of words That if your vocabulary is limited your chances of success are limited. That one of the easiest and quickest ways to get ahead is by consciously building up your knowledge of words. 15 The the vocabulary of the average person almost stops growing by the middle that from then on it is necessary to have an intelligent plan if progress is to be haphazard hitormiss methods will do. The study of words is not merely something that has to do with are your tools of can39。lend color to your persona