晨讀英語(yǔ)美文100篇六級(jí)The Folly of Anxiety

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:] [00:02.22]Passage　97 The Folly of Anxiety [00:07.80]Half the people on our streets look as though life was a sorry business. [00:13.81]It is hard to find a happy looking man or woman. [00:16.98]Worry is the cause of their woebegone appearance. [00:21.36]Worry makes the wrinkles; worry cuts the deep, down-glancing lines on the face; [00:29.35]worry is the worst disease of our modern times. [00:33.84]Care is contagious; it is hard work being cheerful at a funeral, [00:40.18]and it is a good deal harder to keep the frown from your face [00:45.10]when you are in the throng of the worry worn ones. [00:48.71]Yet, we have no right to be dispensers of gloom; [00:53.42]no matter how heavy our loads may seem to be we have no right to throw their burden on others [01:02.50]nor even to cast the shadow of them on other hearts. [01:06.98]Anxiety is instability. Fret steals away force. [01:13.55]He who dreads tomorrow trembles today. [01:17.71]Worry is weakness. [01:20.67]The successful men may be always wide-awake, but they never worry. [01:26.46]Fret and fear are like fine sand, thrown into life's delicate mechanism; [01:34.01]they cause more than half the friction; they steal half the power. [01:39.92]Cheer is strength. [01:42.32]Nothing is so well done as that which is done heartily, [01:47.47]and nothing is so heartily done as that which is done happily. [01:52.50]Be happy, is an injunction not impossible of fulfillment. [01:58.63]Pleasure may be an accident; but happiness comes in definite ways. [02:04.53]It is the casting out of our foolish fears that we may have room for a few of our common joys. [02:12.41]It is the telling our worries to wait until we get through appreciating our blessings. [02:19.08]Take a deep breath, raise your chest, lift your eyes from the ground, [02:25.11]look up and think how many things you have for which to be grateful, [02:30.79]and you will find a smile growing where one may long have been unknown. [02:36.17]Take the right kind of thought—for to take no thought would be sin—but take the calm, [02:44.58]unanxious thought of your business, your duties, your difficulties, [02:49.83]your disappointments and all the things that once have caused you fear, [02:55.08]and you will find yourself laughing at most of them.

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