大学生晨读美文
大学生晨读美文1.knowledge and Virtue
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility,nor is largeness and justness of view faith.
Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound,gives no command over the passions, no influential motives, no vivifying principles.
Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman.
It is well to be a gentleman,it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste,a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind,a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life—these are the connatural qualities of a large knowledge; they are the objects of a University.
I am advocating, I shall illustrate and insist upon them; but still, I repeat, they are no guarantee for sanctity or even for conscientiousness,and they may attach to the man of the world, to the profligate,to the heartless, pleasant, alas, and attractive as he shows when decked out in them.
Taken by themselves, they do but seem to be what they are not; they look like virtue at a distance, but they are detected by close observers, and in the long run;and hence it is that they are popularly accused of pretense and hypocrisy,not, I repeat, from their own fault,but because their professors and their admirers persist in taking them for what they are not,and are officious in arrogating for them a praise to which they have no claim.
Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk,then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants,the passion and the pride of man.
大学生晨读美文2.Struggle for Freedom
It is not possible for me to express all that I feel of appreciation for what has been said and given to me.
I accept, for myself, with the conviction of having received far beyond what I have been able to give in my books.
I can only hope that the many books which I have yet to write will be in some measure a worthier acknowledgment than I can make tonight.
And, indeed, I can accept only in the same spirit in which I think this gift was originally given—that it is a prize not so much for what has been done, as for the future.
Whatever I write in the future must, I think, be always benefited and strengthened when I remember this day.
I accept,too, for my country,the United States of America.
We are a people still young and we know that we have not yet come to the fullest of our powers.
This award, given to an American, strengthens not only one, but the whole body of American writers, who are encouraged and heartened by such generous recognition.
And I should like to say, too, that in my country it is important that this award has been given to a woman.
You who have already so recognized your own Selma Lagerlof, and have long recognized women in other fields, cannot perhaps wholly understand what it means in many countries that it is a woman who stands here at this moment.
But I speak not only for writers and for women, but for all Americans, for we all share in this.
I should not be truly myself if I did not, in my own wholly unofficial way, speak also of the people of China,whose life has for so many years been my life also, whose life,indeed, must always be a part of my life.
The minds of my own country and China, my foster country, are alike in many ways,but above all, alike in our common love of freedom.
And today more than ever, this is true, now when China's whole being is engaged in the greatest of all the struggles, the struggle for freedom.
I have never admired China more than I do now, when I see her uniting as she has never before, against the enemy who threatens her freedom.
With this determination for freedom, which is in so profound a sense the essential quality of her nature,
I know that she is unconquerable.
Freedom—it is today more than ever the most precious human possession.
We—Sweden and the United States—we have it still.
My country is young—but it greets you with a peculiar fellowship, you whose earth is ancient and free.
大学生晨读美文3.What Is Immortal
To see the golden sun and the azure sky, the outstretched ocean,
to walk upon the green earth, and to be lord of a thousand creatures,
to look down giddy precipices or over distant flowery vales,
to see the world spread out under one’s finger in a map,
to bring the stars near, to view the smallest insects in a microscope,
to read history,and witness the revolutions of empires and the succession of generations,
to hear of the glory of Sidon and Tyre, of Babylon and Susa, as of a faded pageant,
and to say all these were, and are now nothing,
to think that we exist in such a point of time,and in such a corner of space,
to be at once spectators and a part of the moving scene,
to watch the return of the seasons, of spring and autumn, to hear —
The stock dove’s notes amid the forest deep,
That drowsy forest rustles to the sighing gale.
— to traverse desert wilderness,to listen to the dungeon's gloom,
or sit in crowded theatres and see life itself mocked,
to feel heat and cold, pleasure and pain, right and wrong, truth and falsehood,
to study the works of art and refine the sense of beauty to agony,
to worship fame and to dream of immortality,
to have read Shakespeare and Beloit to the same species as Sir Isaac Newton;
to be and to do all this, and then in a moment to be nothing,to have it all snatched from one like a juggler' ball or a phantasmagoria...
大学生晨读美文4.Of Studies
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.
Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement and disposition of business.
For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
To spend too much time in studies is sloth;
to use them too much for ornament,is affectation;
to make judgement wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar.
They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants,that need pruning by study;
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; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; 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; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things.
Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
And therefore,if a man write little，he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he does not.
Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
大学生晨读美文5.Five Balls of Life
Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air.
You name them work, family,health, friends and spirit and you’re keeping all of these in the air.
You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball.
If you drop it, it will bounce back.
But the other four balls family, health, friends and spirit are made of glass.
If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered.
They will never be the same.
You must understand that and strive for balance in your life. How?
Don’t undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others.
It is because we are different that each of us is special.
Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important.
Only you know what is best for you.
Don’t take for granted the things closest to your heart.
Cling to them as they would be your life, for without them, life is meaningless.
Don’t let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future.
By living your life one day at a time, you live ALL the days of your life.
Don’t give up when you still have something to give.