【正文】 eved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children 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 be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me. 第十一周 第二篇 Of Studies (3) Histories make men wise。 and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory。 else distilled books are like mon distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man。 and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others。 that is, some books are to be read only in parts。 but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted。 nor to believe and take for granted。d pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank。s mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances。s arms. And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress39。s a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances。 but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. 7 第十周 第一篇 All the World39。 and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them。 to use them too much for ornament, is affectation。 and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one。er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action. 第九周 第二篇 Of Studies (1) By Francis Bacon Studies serve for delight, for ornamental, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, in privateness and retiring。s delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th39。s wrong, the proud man39。 For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th39。 For in that sleep of death what dreams may e When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There39。tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream: ay, there39。 No more。 affection which is received should liberate the affection which is to be given, and only where both exist in equal measure does affection achieve its best possibilities. 6 第九周 第一篇 To Be, or Not to Be By William Shakespeare To be, or not to be: that is the question, Whether39。 each receives affection with joy and gives it without effort, and each finds the whole world more interesting in consequence of the existence of this reciprocal happiness. There is, however, another kind, by no means unmon, in which one person sucks the vitality of the other, one receives what the other gives, but gives almost nothing in return. Some very vital people belong to this bloodsucking type. They extract the vitality from one victim after another, but while they prosper and grow interesting, those upon whom they live grow pale and dim and dull. Such people use others as means to their own ends, and never consider them as ends in themselves. Fundamentally they are not interested in those whom for the moment they think they love。 that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom。er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent! 第七周 第二篇 Gettysburg Address By Abraham Lincoln Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now, we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have e to dedicate a portion of that field as a final restingplace for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never fet what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before usthat from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion。er her face。 And all that39。 Though as for that, the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black.