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I Wish I Could believe by C. Day Lewis The best lack all conviction, While the worst are full of passionate intesity. Those two lines of Yeats for me sum up the matter as it stands today when the very currency of belief seems debased. I was brought u

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The Only Way to Make a Friend By Herbert Lehman So many things affect a mans philosophy and his life that I find it difficult to put into words my personal beliefs. I hesitate to speak of them publicly for fear of giving the appearance of preaching.

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Inspiration from a Drainpipe By Mrs. John G. Lee I think the most profound influence in my life was my father. He was an inventor and a scientist with a most inquisitive mind. He loved and was greatly stimulated by the beauty and the design he found

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Matisse and the Music of Discontent By Andre Kostelanetz On Easter Sunday, 1945, the last year of the war, my wife and I were in Marseilles. We had just arrived for four days rest, after a tour of entertaining the troops in Burma. It was a wonderful

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The Light of a Bright Day By Helen Keller I choose for my subject faith wrought into life, apart from creed or dogma. By faith I mean a vision of good one cherishes and the enthusiasm that pushes one to seek its fulfillment regardless of obstacles. F

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The Soundest Investment of All by C. Jared Ingersoll I feel very presumptuous and uncomfortable about trying to explain out loud the things I believe in. But I do think that all human problems are in some way related to each other, so perhaps if peop

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The Greeks Had an Answer by Gilbert Murray In trying to say what I really believe, I cannot recite one of the traditional creeds, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, or the like. Most of us are born into one of them, and which it is depends simply o

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A New Control of Destiny by Margaret Mead Children used to play a game of pointing at someone, suddenly saying, What are you? Some people answered by saying, I am a human being, or by nationality or by religion. When this question was put to me by a

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I See No Doom Down an Alley我看见的不是死胡同 By Herbert Hoover My professional training was in science and engineering. That is a training in the search for truth, and its application to the use of mankind. With a gloss of science we have a

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Do You Know Your Special Talent? by Anne Heywood What I am about to say may appear to be plugging my own business, but it's what I know best ... and I believe it deeply and sincerely. I believe that every human being has a talent - something that he

28-Solitude

Solitude Ella Wheeler Wilcox LAUGH, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow it's mirth, But has trouble enough of it's own. Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air. The echoes b

27-A Wayfaring Song

A Wayfaring Song Henry van Dyke 0 who will walk a mile with me Along life's merry way? A comrade blithe and full of glee, Who dares to laugh out loud and free And let his frolic fancy play, Like a happy child, through the flowers gay That fill the f

03-The More Loving One

--W.H.Auden/W.H.奥登 Looking up at the stars, I know quite well 仰望群星的时分，我一清二楚 ， That, for all they care, I can go to hell, 尽管它们关怀备至，我亦有可 能赴地府， But on earth indifference is the least 可是尘世间我们丝毫不必畏惧 We have

04-Empty Your Cup

A university professor went to visit a famous Zen master. While the master quietly served tea,the professor talked about Zen.The master poured the visitor's cup to the brim,and then kept pouring.The professor watched the overflowing cup until he cou

05-Dusk

looking into the sunset, i can't help but notice that despite her beauty, a sense of struggle and helplessness surround the sky, deep inside, you realize that this day is gone, and everything it has brought is lost forever, every thought, every acti

08-August

August (Excerpt) by Charles Dickens There is no month in the whole year, in which nature wears a more beautiful appearance than in the month of August. Spring has many beauties, and May is a fresh and blooming month, but the charms of this time of y

06-A Better Tomorrow

People often wonder why historians go to so much trouble to preserve millions of books, documents and records of the past. Why do we have libraries? What good are these documents and the history books? Why do we record and save the actions of men, t

25-Don't just stand there

Many people think that they have to accept whatever life throws at them. They'll say, This is my fate, my destiny. I cannot change it. Of course not! You don't have to suffer needlessly. Your destiny depends on you, not on any other external factors

26-Your World

YOUR WORLD George Douglas Johnson Your world is as big as you make it. I know, for I used to abide In the narrowest nest in a corner, My wings pressing close to my side. But I sighted the distant horizon Where the sky line encircled the sea, And I t

23-A Morning Wish

The sun is just rising in the morning of another day. What can I wish that this day may bring me? Nothing that shall make the world or others poorer, nothing at the expense of other men; but just those few things which in their coming do not stop me