by James T. Mangan
“ It is one of the most beautiful compensations sincerely try to help another without helping of life that no man can himself.
” J. Pearson Webster To help others, you don’t have to be an efficient the intention. You may be crude and clumsy, expert in the art, the main thing is wasteful try but to help, and your ineffective, attempt but if you sincerely knows your intention and is strengthened and good. The one you are produces trying nothing to help encouraged nearly every case, your simple desire to help, by the magic of your sharing. In converted sought. But perhaps the greatest good is the into action, produces the good good that you yourself get out of the attempt. Service than good, you free yourself into a clean world of the to joy others you deliver delivers to more them. joy In to doing you joy and light. The good you simply try to do, regardless of the outcome, is always a success inside yourself.
What is An Educated Man ?(2)
By George A. Coe
An Educated Man is one who is trained to use the tools of human intercourse with readiness, precision accuracy, especially language and the rudiments of numbers.
An Educated Man must be able to study to think without guidance from others. He must be-to some extent—a thinker, not an imitator.
An Educated Man must have sufficient knowledge of nature to understand the main processes upon which human life happiness depend.
An Educated Man knows enough history to enable him to understand the main achievements of man.
An Educated Man is acquainted with the major resources for intellectual and esthetic enjoyment. He knows nature, literature, music, and the other arts sufficiently to choose superior to inferior enjoyments.
快乐之钥
“任何一个人，如果真诚地试行帮助旁人，必然也同时帮助了自己，这乃是人生当中最优美的补偿之。”——韦布斯特
想去帮助旁人，你不必是这值种艺术的能干的专家，主要的条件是意向。你也许是粗陋而笨拙的，浪费而低能的，但是如果你真诚地试行帮助旁人，你的尝试必然产生善。你所打算帮助的人晓得了你的意向，并且被你的分担负荷的神秘力量所增强和鼓励。差不多在每一个事例之中，你的单纯的助人愿望，在化为行动之后，都会产生所寻的善。但是最大的善，也许还是你自己从这项尝试中所获得的益处。在帮助旁人的时候，你本身所获得的快乐要比你带给那些人的快乐为多。在行善之中，你把本身从自我的可怕的附和之中解放出来，你脱离了自我，而进 入一个快乐和光明的清纯世界。只要你去试行为善，不论其结果如何，再你的内心理面都永远会是一项成功。
怎樣才算是一個受過教育的人？
一個受過教育的人，要能夠很敏捷而正確地運用人類溝通思想的工具，尤其是語言和基本數學。
一個受過教育的人，要能夠獨自研究和思想，而不受旁人的指導。他必須是一個相當有思想的人，而不是模倣者。
一個受過教育的人，對於自然必須具有充份的知識，能夠瞭解為人類生活和幸福之所繫的一些主要程序。
一個受過教育的人，要有充份的歷史知識，能夠瞭解人類的主要成就。
一個受過教育的人，熟知各種智力樂趣和唯美樂趣的主要源泉。他通曉自然、文學、音樂、和其他藝術，能夠選擇高雅的享樂。
General MacArthur’s Prayer For
His Son(3)
by Douglas MacArthur
Build me a son , O 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 .
Build me a son whose wishes will not take the place of deeds ; a son who will know Thee — and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge .
Lead him , I pray , not in the path of ease and comfort , but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge .Here let him learn to stand up in the storm ; here let him learn compassion for those who fail .
Build me a son whose heart will be clean , whose goal will be high, a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men ; one who will reach into the future , yet never forget the past .
Companionship of Books(4)
by Samuel Smiles
A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age.
Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see them as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe.
麥师為子祈禱文
主啊，请陶冶我的儿子，使他成为一个坚强的人，能够知道自己什么时候是软弱的；使他成为一个勇敢的人，能够在畏惧的时候认清自己，谋求补救；使他在诚实的失败之中，能够自豪而不屈，在获得成功之际，能够谦逊而温和。
请陶冶我的儿子，使他不要以愿望代替实际作为；使它能够认识主——并且晓得自知乃是知识的基石。
我祈求你，不要引导他走上安逸舒适的道路，而要让他遭受困难与挑战的磨练和策励。让他藉此学习在风暴之中挺立起来，让他藉此学习对失败的人加以同情。
以书为伴
好书就像是你最好的朋友。它始终不渝，过去如此，现在如此，将来也永远不变。它是最有耐心，最令人愉悦的伴侣。在我们穷愁潦倒，临危遭难时，它也不会抛弃我们，对我们总是一如既往地亲切。在我们年轻时，好书陶冶我们的性情，增长我们的知识；到我们年老时，它又给我们以慰藉和勉励。
书籍介绍我们与最优秀的人为伍，使我们置身于历代伟人巨匠之间，如闻其声，如观其行，如见其人，同他们情感交融，悲喜与共，感同身受。我们觉得自己仿佛在作者所描绘的舞台上和他们一起粉墨登场。
Friendship(5)
No young man starting life could have
better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more---to be happy and successful---than much money or great learning.
Friendship is no one-sided affair. There can be no friendship without reciprocity. One cannot receive all and give nothing, or give all and receive nothing, and expect to experience the joy and fullness of true companionship. Those who would make friends must cultivate the qualities which are admired and which attract. If you are mean, stingy and selfish, nobody will admire you. You must cultivate generosity and large-heartedness; you must be magnanimous and tolerant; you must have positive qualities, for a negative, shrinking, apologizing, roundabout man is despised.
On Staying Young (6)
by Samuel Ullman
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
友谊
by Oriaon Swett Marden
刚刚开始人生途程的青年人，他所能具有的最大资本，莫过于许多朋友。朋友可以加强他的声誉，在每一项伟大努力之中对他加以支持，并且使他成为一个更好的人，而如果没有那些朋友的帮助，他便永远无从变成那样的人。为了达到幸福和成功的目的，益友对于他的帮助要比大量金钱和渊博学问为多。
友谊不是单方面的事情。没有交互关系，便不会有友谊。一个人如果只取不与，或只与不取，便无从体验真实友谊的快乐和丰满。 想结交朋友的人们，必须培养那些受人钦敬并且具有吸引力量的性质。如果你小气、吝啬、而自私，没有人会钦敬你。你必须培养慷慨和大度；你必须宽宏大量，善于容忍；你必须具有一些积极的性质，因为一个消极、畏缩、辩解，而转弯抹角的人是被人轻视的。
永保青春
青春并不是人生当中的一段时期，而是一种心理状态；代表青春的并不是红光满面，身手矫捷，而是坚强的意志，高超的想像，旺盛的感情；青春乃是生命之幽深泉源的一股清新气质。
青春的含义，是用勇敢克服懦弱，以冒险代替安逸。一个年届耳顺的人，有时可以比二十岁的少年更富于青春气息。单是岁月的增进，并不足以使人衰老；放弃自己的理想，才会使人衰老。
岁月会在皮肤上面留下皱纹，失去热情则会在灵魂上面留下皱纹。忧虑、怀疑、缺乏自信、恐惧和绝望——这些情绪会把心灵压垮，使精神崩溃。
By John F. Kennedy
Courage(7)
dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final The courage of
life is often a less moment, mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does but it is no less a magnificent what consequences, he must dangers and pressures - and that is the basis in - spite in spite of obstacles of personal and of all human morality.
qualifications, To be courage…requies no combination of time, place and circumstance. no magic formula, exceptional no special It presented is an opportunity one to us that sooner or later is courage. arena which all. imposes Politics merely special furnishes tests meet challenge of courage, whatever may be In whatever arena of life one may of the conscience - the loss of his friends, his fortune, sacrifices he faces if he follows his his fellow contentment, himself the course he will follow. The stories men - each even man the must esteem decide of his for of they can teach, they can offer hope, they can past courage can define that ingredient - provide courage inspiration. into his own soul. itself. For this But each they man cannot must supply look
勇气
日常生活中的勇气往往不象最后时刻的勇气那样辉煌壮观,但它依然算得上是一个悲喜交加的非凡的混合体.无论个人结果怎样,无论要经历多少阻碍、危险和压力,一个人必须做他该做的事情,这是一切人类道德的基础.
做到勇敢,并不需要非凡的资质,也无需神奇的方案,以及特定的时间、地点和环境,它只是一个迟早都会出现在我们所有人面前的机会.政治不过是提供了一个舞台,在这个舞台上能够对勇气进行特殊的测试.无论是在人生的哪一个舞台上,我们都有可能遇见挑战,如果他循规蹈矩的话,任何牺牲都有可能是他所要面对的--失去朋友,失去运气,失去知己,甚至失去同胞的尊重--每个人都必须决定自己将要走的路.所有昔日关于勇气的故事能够详细界定勇敢的因素--这些故事可以教育我们,可以给予我们希望,也可以激励我们,但是它们无法为我们提供勇气.正因为如此,每个人都必须审视自己的灵魂.
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