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有关唯美的英语美文：艰辛的人生
A life of slothful ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as an individual.
We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious efforts,
the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. Freedom from effort in the present merely meansthat there has been effort stored up in the past. A man can be freed from the necessity of work only by the fact that he or his fathers before him have worked to good purpose. If the freedom thus purchased is used aright, and the man still does actual work, though of a different kind, whether as a writer or a general, whether in the field of politics or in the field of exploration and adventure,
he shows he deserves his good fortune.
But if he treats this period of freedom from the need of actual labor as a period, not of preparation, butof mere enjoyment, even though perhaps not of vicious enjoyment, he shows that he is simply a cumberer on the earth’s surface; and he surely unfits himself to hold his own place with his fellows, if the need to do so should again arise. A mere life of ease is not in the end a very satisfactory life, and, above all, it is a life which ultimately unfits those who follow it for serious work in the world.
As it is with the individual, so it is with the nation. It is a base untruth to say that happy is the nation that has no history. Thrice happy is the nation that has a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,because they live in the gray twillight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
有关唯美的英语美文：谈怕死
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as anend.There was a time when we were not: this gives me no concern-why then should it troubleus that a time will come when we shall cease to be? I have no wish to have been alive ahundred years ago, or in the reign of Queen Anne. Why should I regret and lay it so much toheart that I shall not be alive a hundred years hence, in the reign of I cannot tell whom?
To die is only to be as we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance,in contemplating this last idea. It is rather a relief and disburdening of the mind; it seems tohave been a holiday time with us then; we were not called to appear upon the stage of life, towear robes or tatters, to laugh or cry, be hooted or applauded; we had lain perdu all this while,snug out of harm’s way; and had slept out our thousands of centuries without wanting to bewaked up; at peace and free from care, in a long nonage, in a sleep deeper and calmer than thatof infancy, wrapped in the softest and finest dust. And the worst that we dread is, after ashort fretful, feverish being, after vain hopes, and idle fears, to sink to final repose again,and forget the troubled dream of life!
有关唯美的英语美文：论人类荣耀之虚渺
What then is the work of life? What the business of great men, that pass the stage of theworld in seeming triumph as these men we call heroes have done? Is it to grow great in themouth of fame and take up so many pages in history? Alas! That is no more than making a talefor the reading of posterity till it turns into fable and romance. Is it to furnish subjects to thepoets, and live in their immortal rhymes as they call them? That is, in short, no more than to behereafter turned into ballad and song and be sung by old women to quiet children, or at thecorner of the street to gather crowds in aid of the pickpocket and the poor. Or is theirbusiness rather to add virtue and piety to their glory, which alone will pass them into eternityand make them truly immortal? What is glory without virture? A great man without religion isno more than a great beast without a soul. What is honour without merit? And what can becalled true merit but that which makes a person bea good man as well as a great man?
