激情晨讀英語美文 第六章 用愛來迎接今天:選擇朋友

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:]聽力課堂 42bites.com [00:03.39]Chapter Six I Will Greet This Day with Love in My Heart [00:10.17]Henceforth I will look on all things with love [00:13.45]and I will be born again. [00:14.77]I will love the sun for it warms my bones; [00:17.83]yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. [00:21.11]I will love the light for it shows me the way; [00:24.39]yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. [00:27.89]I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; [00:31.93]yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. [00:35.65]I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; [00:39.04]yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge. [00:43.42]——Og Madino [00:55.71]The Choice of Companion [00:57.46]By William Makepeace Thayer [00:58.88]A good companion is better than a fortune, [01:02.93]for a fortune cannot purchase those elements of character [01:06.65]which make companionship a blessing. [01:08.51]The best companion is one [01:09.93]who is wiser and better than ourselves, [01:12.33]for we are inspired by his wisdom and virtue to nobler deeds. [01:16.16]“Keep good company, and you shall be one of the number,” [01:20.54]said George Herbert. [01:21.52]“A man is known by the companion he keeps.” [01:24.04]Character makes character in the associations of life [01:27.86]faster than anything else. [01:29.40]Purity begets purity, like begets like; [01:32.90]and this fact makes the choice of companion [01:35.31]in early life more important even than [01:38.36]that of teachers and guardians. [01:40.01]It is true that we cannot always choose all of our companions, [01:43.50]some are thrust upon us by business [01:45.91]or the social relations of life, [01:47.77]we do not choose them, we do not enjoy them; [01:50.28]and yet, we have to associate with them more or less. [01:53.57]The experience is not altogether without compensation, [01:57.07]if there be principle enough in us to bear the strain. [02:00.13]Still, in the main, choice of companions can be made, [02:04.27]and must be made. [02:05.90]It is not best or necessary for a young person [02:07.77]to associate with “Tom, Dick, and Harry” [02:10.17]without forethought or purpose. [02:12.25]Some fixed rules about the company he [02:14.76]or she keeps must be observed. [02:17.50]The subject should be uttermost in the thoughts, [02:20.01]and canvassed often. [02:21.33]Companionship is education, good or not; [02:25.04]it develops manhood or womanhood, high or low; [02:28.33]it lifts soul upward or drags it downward; [02:31.06]it minister to virtue or vice. [02:33.25]Sow virtue, and the harvest will be virtue, Sow vice, [02:37.95]and the harvest will be vice. [02:39.81]Good companionships help us to sow virtue; [02:42.22]evil companionships help us to sow vice.

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