【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 A single man has not nearly the value he would have in that State of Union. He is an inplete resembles the odd Half of a Pair of Scissors. If you get a prudent, health wife, your Industry in your Profession, with her good Economy, will be a Fortune sufficient. Your Affectionate Friend 給年輕朋友的一封信 本杰明 富蘭克林 我知道沒有藥物能夠消除你們所提到的那種瘋狂的自然傾向 。即使我知道 ,我想我也不該告訴你 .婚姻是適當?shù)乃幬?。它是人類最本能的狀態(tài) , 因此是一種最幸7 福的生活狀態(tài)。你拒絕現(xiàn)在進入婚姻殿堂的理由顯的不夠充分 .你認為推遲婚姻可能存在好處 ,不僅不一定實現(xiàn)，而且 ,那些利益跟婚姻本身以及婚后的安定相比起來就微不足道了 。男人和女人只有聯(lián)合起來才能組成完整的人 .女人缺乏男人的力量和周密的推理 ,而男人缺乏女人的溫柔、感性和敏銳的洞察力。因此當男人和女人聯(lián)合起來。就能夠無往不勝。單身和離婚生活的男男女女不可能具有婚姻生活中的價值，是一種不完善的動物。他簡直好比半把剪刀 孤掌難鳴。 如果你擁有一位健康而謹慎的妻子，你的辛勤工作，加上她的勤儉節(jié)約，必定會創(chuàng)造充足的財富。 您真摯的朋友 Life is never just is being a relentless, flowing parents live on through us,and we will live on through our institutions we build endure,and we will endure through beauty we fashion cannot be dimmed by flesh may perish,our hands will wither,but that which they creat in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to e. Don39。t spend and waste your lives accumulating objects that will only turn to dust and not so much the material as the ideal,for ideals alone invest life with meaning and are of enduring worth. Add love to a house and you have a righteousness to a city and you have a truth to a pile of red brick and you have a religion to the hublest of edifices and you have a justice to the farflung round of human endeavor and you have them all together,exalt them above their present imperfections, add to them the vision of humankind redeemed,forever free of need and strife and you have a future lighted with the radiant colors of hope. However mean your life is,meet it and live it 。do not shun it and call it hard is not so bad as you looks poorest when you are faultfinder will find faults in your life,poor as it may perhaps have some pleasant,thrilling,glorious hourss,even in a setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man39。s abode。the snow melts before its door as early in the do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there,and have as cheering thoughts,as in a town39。s poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of be they are simply great enough to receive without think that they are above being supported by the town。but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest should be more poverty like a garden herb,like not trouble yourself much to get new things,whether clothes or 8 friends,Turn the old,return to do not change。we your clothes and keep your thoughts. 不論你的生活如何卑賤，你要面對它生活，不要躲避它，更別用惡言咒罵它。它不像你那樣壞。你最富有的時候，倒是看似最窮。愛找缺點的人就是到天堂里也能找到缺點。你要愛你的生活，盡管它貧窮。甚至在一個濟貧院里，你也還有愉快、高興、光榮的時候。夕陽反射在濟貧院的窗上，像身在富戶人家窗上一樣光亮；在那門前，積雪同在早春融化。我只看到，一個從容的人，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。城鎮(zhèn)中的窮人，我看，倒往往是過著最獨立不羈的生活。也許因為他們很偉大，所以受之無愧。大多數(shù)人以為他們是超然的，不靠城鎮(zhèn)來支援他們；可是事實上他們是往往利用了不正當?shù)氖侄蝸韺Ω渡睿麄兪呛敛怀摰?，毋寧是不體面的。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。找舊的，回到那里去。萬物不變，是我們在變。你的衣服可以賣掉，但要保留你的思想。 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。 one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. 啊，上帝，請請我造就這樣一個兒子，他將堅強足以認識自己的弱點，勇敢得足以面 對恐懼，在遇到正當?shù)拇煺蹠r能夠昂首而不卑躬屈膝，在勝利時能謙遜而不趾高氣揚。 Build me a son whose wishbone will not be where his backbone should be。 a son who will know Thee and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge. 請給我造就這樣一個兒子，他不會用愿望代替行動，將牢記你的教誨 ―― 認識自己是認識世界的奠基石。 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。 here let him learn passion for those who fail. 我祈求，請不要把他引上平靜安逸的道路，而要把他置于困難和挑戰(zhàn)的考驗和激勵之下，讓他學會在暴風雨中挺立，讓 他學會對那些失敗者富于憐憫。 ll be clear, whose goal will be high。 a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men。 one who will learn to laugh, yet never fet how to weep。 one who will reach into the future, yet never fet the past. 9 請給我造就這樣一個兒子， 他將心地潔凈，目標高尚；他將在征服別人之前先征服自己，他將擁有未來，但永遠不忘記過去。 And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously. Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength. Then, I, his father, will dare to whisper I have not lived in vain. 我祈求，除了上述的一切，請賜他足夠的幽默感，這樣他可以永遠莊重，但不至于盛氣凌人；賦他以謙卑的品質(zhì)，這樣他可能永遠銘記在心：真正的偉人也要真誠率直，真正的賢人也要虛懷若谷，真正的強者也要溫文爾雅。那么， 作為他父親的我就將敢于對人低語： “ 我這一生沒有白過。 ” 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 so