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1. The First Snow

The first snow came. How beautiful it was, falling so silently all
day long, all night long, on the mountains, on the meadows, on the
roofs on the living, on the graves of the dead! All white save the
river, that marked its course be a winding black line across the
landscape; and the leafless tress, that against the leaden sky now
revealed more fully the wonderful beauty and intricacies of their
branches.
What
silence,
too,
came
with
the
snow,
and
what
seclusion!
Every sound was muffled, every noise changed to something soft and
musical. No more tramping hoofs, no more rattling wheels! Only the
chiming of sleigh- bell, beating as swift and merrily as the hearts
of children. (118 words)

From Kavanagh

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2. The Humming-bird

Of all animals being this is the most elegant in form and the most
brilliant
in
colors.
The
stones
and
metals
polished
by
our
arts
are
not comparable to this jewel of Nature. She has placed it least in
size
of
the
order
of
birds.

Miranda
in
minimis.
Her
masterpiece
is
this
little
humming-bird,
and
upon
it
she
has
heaped
all the gifts which the other birds may only share. Lightness,
rapidity, nimbleness, grace, and rich apparel all belong to this
little favorite. The emerald, the ruby, and the topaz gleam upon
its dress. It never soils them with the dust of earth, and in its
aerial
life
scarcely
touches
the
turf
an
instant.
Always
in
the
air,
flying
from
flower
to
flower,
it
has
their
freshness
as
well
as
their
brightness. It lives upon their nectar, and dwells only in the
climates where they perennially bloom. (149 words)

From Natural History

By George Louise Buffon

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3. Pines

The
pine,
placed
nearly
always
among
scenes
disordered
and
desolate,
bring
into
them
all
possible
elements
of
order
and
precision.
Lowland trees may lean to this side and that, though it is but a
meadow
breeze
that
bends
them
or
a
bank
of
cowlips
from
which
their
trunks
lean
aslope.
But
let
storm
and
avalanche
do
their
worst,
and
let the pine find only a ledge of vertical precipice to cling to,
it
will
nevertheless
grow
straight.
Thrust
a
rod
from
its
last
shoot
down the stem; it shall point to the center of the earth as long
as
the
tree
lives.
It
may
be
well
also
for
lowland
branches
to
reach
hither and thither for what they need, and to take all kinds of
irregular shape and extension. But the pine is trained to need
nothing
and
endure
everything.
It
is
resolvedly
whole,
self- contained,
desiring
nothing
but
rightness,
content
with
restricted completion. Tall or short, it will be straight.

(160 words)

From Modern Painters

By John Ruskin

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4. Reading Good Books

Devote some of your leisure, I repeat, to cultivating a love of
reading
good
books.
Fortunate
indeed
are
those
who
contrive
to
make
themselves
genuine
book-lovers.
For
book
lovers
have
some
noteworthy
advantages
over
other
people.
They
need
never
know
lonely
hours so long as they have books around them, and the better the
books the more delightful the company. From good books, moreover,
they draw much besides entertainment. They gain mental food such
as few companions can supply. Even while resting from their labors
they are, through the books they read, equipping themselves to
perform those labors more efficiently. This albeit they may not be
deliberately reading to improve their mind. All unconsciously the
ideas
they
derive
from
the
printed
paged
are
stored
up,
to
be
worked
over by the imagination for future profit.

(135 words)

From Self- Development

By Henry Addington Bruce

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5. On Etiquette

Etiquette to society is what apparel is to the individual. Without
apparel men would go in shameful nudity which would surely lead to
the corruption of morals; and without etiquette society would be
in
a
pitiable
state
and
the
necessary
intercourse
between
its
members
would
be
interfered
with
by
needless
offences
and
troubles.
If
society
were
a
train,
the
etiquette
would
be
the
rails
along
which
only the train could rumble forth; if society were a state coach,
the etiquette would be the wheels and axis on which only the coach
could roll forward. The lack of proprieties would make the most
intimate
friends
turns
to
be
the
most
decided
enemies
and
the
friendly
or
allied
countries
declare
war
against
each
other.
We
can
find many examples in the history of mankind. Therefore I advise
you to stand on ceremony before anyone else and to take pains not
to do anything against etiquette lest you give offences or make
enemies. (160 words)

by William Hazlitt

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6. An Hour Before Sunrise

An
hour
before
sunrise
in
the
city
there
is
an
air
of
cold.
Solitary
desolation
about
the
noiseless
streets, which
we
are
accustomed
to
see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the
quiet,
closely
shut
buildings
which
throughout
the
day
are
warming
with
life.
The
drunken,
the
dissipated,
and
the
criminal
have
disappeared;
the
more
sober
and
orderly
part
of
the
population
have
not
yet
awakened
to
the
labors
of
the
day,
and
the
stillness
of
death
is over streets; its very hue seems to be imparted to them, cold
and lifeless as they look in the gray, somber light of daybreak.
A partially opened bedroom window here and there bespeaks the heat
of
the
weather
and
the
uneasy
slumbers
of
its
occupant;
and
the
dim
scanty flicker of a light through the blinds of yonder windows
denotes
the
chamber
of
watching
and
sickness.
Save
for
that
sad
light,
the
streets
present
no
signs
of
life,
nor
the
houses
of
habitation.
(166 words)

From Boz

By Charles Dickens

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7. The Importance of Scientific Experiments

The
rise
of
modern
science
may
perhaps
be
considered to
date
as
far
as the time of Roger Bacon, the wonderful monk and philosopher of
Oxford, who lived between the years 1214 and 1292. He was probable
the first in the middle ages to assert that we must learn science
by observing and experimenting on the things around us, and he
himself
made
many
remarkable
discoveries.
Galileo,
however
who
lived more than 300 years later (1564 to 1642), was the greatest
of
several
great
men,
who
in
Italy,
France,
Germany
or
England,
began
by degrees to show how many important truths could be discovered
by well-directed observation. Before the time of Galileo, learned
men believed that large bodies fall more rapidly towards the earth
than small ones, because Aristotle said so. But Galileo, going to
the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, let fall two unequal stones,
and proved to some friends, whom he had brought there to see his
experiment, that Aristotle was in error. It is Galileo's sprit of
going direct to Nature, and verifying our opinions and theories by
experiment, that has led to all the great discoveries of modern
science.

(196 words)

From Logic

By William Stanley Jevons

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8. Address at Gettysburg

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent
a
new
nation
in
liberty,
and
dedicated
to
the
proposition
that all men are created equal.

Now
we
are
engaged
in
a
great
civil
war,
testing
whether
that
nation,
or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, ca n long endure. We
are
met
on
a
great
battlefield
of
that
war.
We
have
come
to
dedicate
a portion
of that
field
as a
final
resting
place for
those
who
here
gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether
fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in
a
larger
sense,
we
cannot
dedicate-we
cannot
consecrate-we
cannot hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who
struggled here, heave consecrated it far above our poor power to
add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what
we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for
us,
the
living,
rather,
to
be
dedicated
here
to
the
unfinished
work
which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is
rather
for
us
to
be
here
dedicated
to
the
great
task
remaining
before
us-that form these honored dead we take increased devotion to that
cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that
we
here
highly
resolve
that
these
dead
shall
not
have
died
in
vain;
that
this
nation,
under
God,
shall
have
a
new
birth
of
freedom;
and
that
government
of
the
people,
by
the
people,
for
the
people,
shall
not perish from the earth. (268 words)

By Abraham Lincoln

9. A Little Girl (1)

Sitting
on
a
grassy
grave,
beneath
one
of
the
windows
of
the
church,
was a little girl. With her head bent back she was gazing up at the
sky and singing, while one of her little hands was pointing to a
tiny cloud that hovered like a golden feather above her head. The
sun, which had suddenly become very bright, shining on her glossy
hair, gave it a metallic luster, and it was difficult to say what
was
the
color,
dark
bronze
or
black.
So
completely
absorbed
was
shi
in watching the cloud to which her strange song or incantation and
went towards her. Over her head, high up in the blue, a lark that
was soaring towards the same gauzy could was singing, as if in
rivalry.
As
I
slowly
approached
the
child,
I
could
see
by
her
forehead, which in the sunshine seemed like a globe of pearl, and
especially by her complexion, that she uncommonly lovely.

(159 words)

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10. A Little Girl (2)

Her eyes, which at one moment seemed blue- gray, at another violet,
were
shaded
by
long
black
lashes,
curving
backward
in
a
most
peculiar
way, and these matched in hue her eyebrows, and the tresses that
were
tossed
about
her
tender
throat
and
were
quivering
in
the
sunlight. All this I did not take in at once; for at first I could
see
nothing
but
those
quivering,
glittering,
changeful
eyes
turned
up
into
my
face.
Gradually
the
other
features,
especially
the
sensitive
full-lipped
mouth,
grew
upon
me
as
I
stood
silently
gazing.
Here seemed tome a more perfect beauty than had ever come to me in
my loveliest dreams of beauty. Yet it was not her beauty so much
as the look she gave me that fascinated me, melted me. (129 words)

(302 words)

From Aylwin

by Theodore Watts-Dunton

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11. Choosing an Occupation

Hodeslea, Eastbourne,

November 5, 1892

Dear Sir,

I
am
very
sorry
that
the
pressure
of
other
occupations
has
prevented
me form sending an earlier reply to your letter.

In my opinion a man's first duty is to find a way of supporting
himself,
thereby
relieving
other
people
of
the
necessity
of
supporting
him.
Moreover,
the
learning
to
so
work
of
practical
value
in the world, in an exact and careful manner, is of itself, a very
important education the effects of which make themselves felt in
all other pursuits. The habit of doing that which you do not dare
about
when
you
would
much
rather
be
doing
something
else,
is
invaluable. It would have saved me a frightful waste of time if I
had ever had it drilled into me in youth.

Success in any scientific career requires an unusual equipment of
capacity,
industry,
and energy.
If
you possess
that
equipment,
you
will find leisure enough after your daily commercial work is over,
to make an opening in the scientific ranks for yourself. If you do
not,
you
had
better
stick
to
commerce.
Nothing
is
less
to
be
desired
than the fate of a young man who, as the Scotch proverb says, in
'trying
to
make
a
spoon
spoils
a
horn,
and
becomes
a
mere
hanger-on
in literature or in science, when he might have been a useful and
a valuable member of Society in other occupations.

I think that your father ought to see this letter. (244 words)

Yours faithfully

. Huxley

From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

By Leonard Huxley

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12. An Important Aspect of College Life

It is perfectly possible to organize the life of our colleges in
such a way that students and teachers alike will take part in it;
in such a way that a perfectly natural daily intercourse will be
established between them; and it is only by such an organization
that
they
can
be
given
real
vitality
as
places
of
serious
training,
be made communities in which youngsters will come fully to realize
how
interesting
intellectual
work
is,
how
vital,
how
important,
how
closely associated with all modern
achievement-only by such an
organization that study can be made to seem part of life itself.
Lectures
often
seem
very
formal
and
empty
things;
recitations
generally proved very dull and unrewarding. It is in conversation
and natural intercourse with scholars chiefly that you find how
lively
knowledge
is,
how
it
ties
into
everything
that
is
interesting
and important, how intimate a part it is of every thing that is
interesting and important, how intimate a part it is of everything
that
is

and
connected
with
the
world.
Men
are
not
always
made thoughtful by books; but they are generally made thoughtful
by association with men who think. (195 words)

By Woodrow Wilson

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13. Night (1)

Night has fallen over the country. Through the trees rises the red
moon, and the stars are scarcely seen. In the vast shadow of night
the
coolness
and
the
dews
descend.
I
sit
at
the
open
window
to
enjoy
them;
and
hear
only
the
voice
of
the
summer
wind.
Like
black
hulks,
the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea
of grass. I cannot see the red and blue flowers, but I know that
they are there. Far away in the meadow gleams the silver Charles.
The tramp of horses' hoofs sounds from the wooden bridge. Then all
is still save the continuous wind or the sound of the neighboring
sea. The village clock strikes; and I feel that I am not alone.

(128 words)

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14. Night (2)

How different it is in the city! It is late, and the crowd is gone.
You
step
out
upon
the
balcony,
and
lie
in
the
very
bosom
of
the
cool,
dewy night as if you folded her garments about you. Beneath lies
the
public
walk
with
trees,
like
a
fathomless,
black
gulf,
into
whose
silent beloved spirit clasped in its embrace. The lamps are still
burning up and down the long street. People go by with grotesque
shadows,
now
foreshortened,
and
now
lengthening
away
into
the
darkness
and
vanishing,
while
a
new
one
springs
up
behind
the
walker,
and seems to pass him revolving like the sail of a windmill. The
iron
gates
of
the
park
shut
with
a
jangling
clang.
There
are
footsteps
and
loud
voices;
--a
tumult;
--a
drunken
brawl;
--an
alarm
of
fire;
--then
silence
again.
And
now
at
length
the
city
is
asleep,
and we can see the night. The belated moon looks over the roofs,
and finds no one to welcome her. The moonlight is broken. It lies
here
and
there
in
the
squares,
and
the
opening
of
the
streets-angular
like blocks of white marble. (195 words)

(323 words)

By Nathanial Hawthorne

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15. An October Sunrise (1)

I was up the next morning before the October sunrise, and away
through the wild and the woodland. The rising of the sun was noble
in the cold and warmth of it; peeping down the spread of light, he
raised his shoulder heavily over the edge of gray mountain and
wavering
length
of
upland.
Beneath
his
gaze
the
dew-fogs
dipped
and
crept to the hollow places, then stole away in line and column,
holding
skirts
and
cling
subtly
at
the
sheltering
corners
where
rock
hung
over
grass-land,
while
the
brave
lines
of
the
hills
came
forth,
one beyond other gliding.

The
woods
arose
in
folds,
like
drapery
of
awakened
mountains,
stately with a depth of awe, and memory of the tempests. Autumn's
mellow
hand
was
upon
them,
as
they
owned
already,
touched
with
gold
and red and olive, and their joy towards the sun was less to a
bridegroom than a father. (152 words)

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16. An October Sunrise (2)

Yet before the floating impress of the woods could clear itself,
suddenly the gladsome light leaped over hill and valley, casting
amber, blue, and purple, and a tint of rich red rose, according to
the scene they lit on, and the curtain flung around; yet all alike
dispelling fear and the coven hoof of darkness, all on the wings
of hope advancing, and proclaiming,
joy sprang
reassured
from
every
crouching
hollow;
every
flower and
bud and bird had a fluttering sense of them, and all the flashing
of God's gaze merged into soft beneficence.

So, perhaps, shall break upon us that eternal morning, when crag
and chasm shall be no more, neither hill and valley, nor great
unvintaged ocean; when glory shall not scare happiness, neither
happiness envy glory; but all things shall arise, and shine in the
light of the Father's countenance, because itself is risen. (153
words)

(305 words)

By Richard D. Blackmore

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17. Of Studies (1)

Studies serve for delight, for ornamental, and for ability. Their
chief use for delight, in privateness and retiring; for ornament,
is
in
discourse;
and
for
ability,
is
in
the
judgment
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
judgment
wholly
by
their
rules,
is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, natural plants,
that need proyning 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. (157 words)

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18. Of Studies (2)

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 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 maketh 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;
an
if
he
read
little,
he
had
need
have
much
cunning,
to
seem
to
know
that he doth not. (170 words)

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19. Of Studies (3)

Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics
subtile;
natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to
contend.
Abeunt
studia
in
mores.
Nay
there
is
no
stond
or
impediment
in the wit,
but
may be
wrought
out
by
fit studies:
like
as
diseases
of
the
body
may
have
appropriate
exercises.
Bowling
is
good
for
the
stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking
for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's
wit
be
wandering,
let
him
study
the
mathematics;
for
demonstrations,
if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If
his
wit
be
not
apt
to
distinguish
or
find
differences,
let
him
study
the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to
beat
over
matters,
and
to
call
up
one
thing
to
prove
and
illustrate
another, let him study the lawyers' cases. So every defect of the
mind may have a special receipt. (163 words)

(490 words)

By Francis Bacon

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20. Books (1)

The
good
books
of
the
hour,
then,
--I
do
not
speak
of
the
bad
ones

is
simply the useful or pleasant talk of some person whom you cannot
otherwise
converse
with,
printed
for
you.
Very
useful
often,
telling
you
what
you
need
to
know;
very
pleasant
often,
as
a
sensible
friend's present talk would be. These bright accounts of travels;
good-humoured
and
witty
discussion
of
questions;
lively
or
pathetic
story-telling in the form of novel; firm fact-telling, by the real
agents
concerned
in
the
events
of
passing
history;
--all
these
books
of
the
hour,
multiplying
among
us
as
education
becomes
more
general,
are a peculiar characteristic and possession of the present age:
we ought to be entirely thankful for them, and entirely ashamed of
ourselves if we make no good use of them. But we make the worse
possible use, if we allow them to usurp the place of true books:
for,
strictly
speaking,
they
are
not
books
at
all,
but
merely
letters
or
newspapers
in
good
print.
Our
friend's
letter
may
be
delightful,
or
necessary,
today:
whether
worth
keeping
or
not,
is
to
be
considered. (189 words)

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21. Books (2)

The
newspaper
may
be
entirely
proper
at
breakfast
time,
but
assuredly it is not reading for all day. So though bound up in a
volume, the long letter which gives you so pleasant an account of
the
inns,
the
roads,
and
weather
last
year
at
such
a
place,
or
which
tells you that amusing story, or gives you the real circumstances
of
such
and
such
events,
however
valuable
for
occasional
reference,
may not be, in the real sense of the word, a
in the real
sense, to
be

A
book
is
essentially
not
a
talked
thing, but a written thing; and written, not with the view of mere
communication, but of permanence. The book of talk is printed only
because its author cannot speak to thousands of people at once; if
he could, he would-the volume is mere multiplication of his voice.
You cannot talk to your friend in India; if you could, you would;
you write instead: that is mere conveyance of voice. But a book is
written, not to multiply the voice merely, not to carry it merely,
but to preserve it. (190 words)

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22. Books (3)

The author has something to say which he perceives to be true and
useful, or helpfully beautiful. So far as he knows, no one has yet
said it; so far as he knows, no one else can say it. He is bound
to
say
it,
clearly
and
melodiously
if
he
may;
clearly,
at
all
events.
In the sum of his life he finds this to be the thing, or group of
things,
manifest
to
him;
--this
the
piece
of
true
knowledge,
or
sight,
which his share of sunshine and earth has permitted him to seize.
He
would
fain
set
it
down
for
ever;
engrave
it
on
rock,
if
he
could;
saying,
and
slept,
loved
and
hated,
like
another;
my
life
was
as
the
vapour,
and is not; but this I saw and knew: this, if anything of mine, is
worth
your
memory,

That
is
his

it
is,
in
his
small
human
way, and with whatever degree of true inspiration is in him, his
inscription, or scripture. That is a

(565 words)

By John Ruskin

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24. The Value of Time (1)


well spent may put some money into our pockets. If our time is
usefully
employed,
it
will
either
turn
out
some
useful
and
important
piece of work which will fetch its price in the market, or it will
add to our experience and increase our capacities so as to enable
us to earn money when the proper opportunity comes. There can thus
be
no
doubt
that
time
is
convertible
into
money.
Let
those
who
think
nothing of wasting time, remember this; let them remember that an
hour misspent is equivalent to the loss of a bank-note; an that an
hour
utilized
is
tantamount
to
so
much
silver
or
gold;
and
then
they
will
probably
think
twice
before
they
give
their
consent
to
the
loss
of any part of their time.

Moreover, our life is nothing more than our time. To kill time is
therefore
a
form
of
suicide.
We
are
shocked
when
we
think
of
death,
and
we
spare
no
pains,
no
trouble,
and
no
expense
to
preserve
life.
But
we
are
too
often
indifferent
to
the
loss
of
an
hour
or
of
a
day,
forgetting that our life is the sum total of the days and of the
hours we live. A day of an hour wasted is therefore so much life
forfeited. Let us bear this in mind, and waste of time will appear
to us in the light of a crime as culpable as suicide itself. (250
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25. The Value of Time (2)

There is a third consideration which will also tend to warn us
against
loss
of
time.
Our
life
is
a
brief
span
measuring
some
sixty
or
seventy
years
in
all,
but
nearly
one
half
of
this
has
to
be
spent
in sleep; some years have to be spent over our meals; some over
dressing
and
undressing;
some
in
making
journeys
on
land
and
voyages
by sea; some in merry- making, either on our own account or for the
sake
of
others;
some
in
celebrating
religious
and
social
festivities;
some in watching over the sick-beds of our nearest and dearest
relatives.
Now
if
all
these
years
were
to
be
deducted
from
the
tern
over which our life extends we shall find about fifteen or twenty
years at our disposal for active work. Whoever remembers this can
never
willingly
waste
a
single
moment
of
his
life.

is
astonishing
says
Lord
Chesterfield

anyone
can
squander
away
in
absolute
idleness
one
single
moment
of
that
portion
of
time
which
is
allotted
to
us
in
this
world.
Know
the
true
value
of
time;
snatch,
seize, and enjoy every moment of it!

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26. The Value of Time (3)

All
time
is
precious;
but
the
time
of
our
childhood
and
of
our
youth
is
more
precious
than
any
other
portion
of
our
existence.
For
those
are
the
periods
when
alone
we
can
acquire
knowledge
and
develop
our
faculties and capacities. If we allow these morning hours of life
to
slip
away
unutilized,
we
shall
never
be
able
to
recoup
the
loss.
As we grow older, our power of acquisition gets blunted, so that
the
art
or
science
which
is
not
acquired
in
childhood
or
youth
will
never
be
acquired
at
all.
Just
as
money
laid
out
at
interest
doubles
and trebles itself in time, so the precious hours of childhood and
youth, if properly used, will yield us incalculable advantages.

moment
you
lose
says
Lord
Chesterfield

so
much
character
and
advantage
lost;
as
on
the
other
hand,
every
moment
you
now
employ
usefully is so much time wisely laid out at prodigious interest.

A proper employment of time is of great benefit to us from a moral
point of view. Idleness is justly said to be the rust of the mind
and an idle
brain
is
said
to
be Satan's
workshop. It
is
mostly
when
you do not know what to do with yourself that you do something ill
or
wrong.
The
mind
of
the
idler
preys
upon
itself.
As
Watt
has
said:

In works of labour or of skill

Let me be busy too;

For Satan finds some mischief still

For idle hands to do. (249 words

(686 words)

By Robert William Service

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27. Spring The Resurrection Time

Springs are not always the same, In some years, April bursts upon
our Virginia hills in one prodigious leap

and all the stage is
filled
at once,
whole
choruses
of
tulips, arabesques
of
forsythia,
cadenzas of flowering plum. The trees grow leaves overnight.

In other years, spring tiptoes in. It pauses, overcome by shyness,
like my grandchild at the door, peeping in, ducking out of sight,
giggling in the hallway.
in!

The dogwood bud, pale green, is inlaid with russet markings. With
in the perfect cup a score of clustered seeds are nestled. Once
examined
the
bud
in
awe:
Where
were
those
seeds
a
month
ago
The
apples
display
their
milliner's
scraps
of
ivory
silk,
rose-tinged.
All
the
sleeping
things wake
up-primrose,
baby
iris,
blue
phlox. The
earth
warms-you can smell it, feel it, crumble April in your hands.

The
dark
Blue
Mountains
in
which
I
dwell,
great-hipped,
big-breasted,
slumber on the western sky. And then they stretch and gradually
awaken. A warm wind, soft as a girl's hair, moves sailboat clouds
in gentle skies. The rain come-good rains to sleep by-and fields
that were dun as oatmeal turn to pale green, then to Kelly green.

All
this
reminds
me
of
a
theme
that
runs
through
my
head
like
a
line
of
music.
Its
message
is
profoundly
simple,
and
profoundly
mysterious
also:
Life
goes
on.
That
is
all
there
is
to
it.
Everything
that is, was; and everything that is, will be. (259 words)

by James J. Kilpatrick

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27. Spell of the Rising Moon

As
the
moon
lifted
off
the
ridge
it
gathered
firmness
and
authority.
Its complexion changed from red, to orange, to gold, to impassive
yellow. It seemed to draw light out of the darkening earth, for as
it rose, the hills and valleys below grew dimmer. By the time the
moon
stood
clear
of
the
horizon,
full
chested
and
round
and
the
color
of ivory, the valley were deep shadows in the landscape. The dogs,
reassured that this was the familiar moon, stopped barking.

The
drama
took
an
hour.
Moonrise
is
slow
and
serried
with
subtleties.
To
watch
it,
we
must
slip
into
an
older,
more
patient
sense
of
time.
To watch the moon move inexorably higher is to find an unusual
stillness within ourselves. Our imaginations become aware of the
vast distances of space, the immensity of the earth and the huge
improbability of our own existence. We feel small but privileged.

Moonlight shows us none of life's harder edges. Hillsides seem
silken and silvery, the oceans still and blue in its light. In
moonlight we become less calculating, more drawn to our feelings.

(184 words)

by Peter Steinhart

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28. The Enchantment of Creeks (1)

Nearly
everybody
has
a
creek
in
his
past,
a
confiding
waterway
that
rose in the spring of youth.…….

My
creek
wound
between
Grandfather's
apricot
orchard
and
a
neighbor's hillside pasture. It banks were shaded by cottonwoods
and
redwood
trees
and
a
thick
tangle
of
blackberries
and
wild
grapevines.
On
hot
summer
days
the
quiet
water
flowed
clear
and
cold
over gravel bars where I fished for trout.

Nothing
historic
ever
happens
in
these
recollected
creeks.
But
their
persistence
in
memory
suggests
that
creeks
are
bigger
than
they
seem,
more a part of our hearts and minds than mighty rivers.

Creek
time
is
measured
in
the
lives
of
strange
creatures,
in
sandflecked caddis worms under the rocks, sudden gossamer clouds
of mayflies in the afternoon, or minnows of darting like silvers
of inspiration into the dimness of creek fate. Mysteries float in
creeks' riffles, crawl over their pebbled bottoms and slink under
the roots of trees.

While
rivers
are
heavy
with
sophistication
and
sediment,
creeks
are
clear,
innocent,
boisterous,
full
of
dream
and
promise.
A
child
can
wade across them without a parent's cautions. You can go it along,
jig for crayfish, swing from ropes along the bank. Creeks belong
to childhood, drawing you into the wider world, teaching you the
curve of the earth. (214 words)

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29. The Enchantment of Creeks (2)

Above all, a creek offers the mind a chance to penetrate the alien
universe
of
water,
of
tadpoles
and
trout.
What
drifts
in
creek
water
is the possibility of other worlds inside and above our own. Poet
Robert
Frost
wrote:

flows
between
us,
over
us,
and
with
us.
And
it is time, strength, tone, light, life, and love.

Creeks lead one on, like perfume on the wind. A creek is something
that
disappears
around
a
bend,
into
the
ground,
into
the
next
dimension.
To
follow
a
creek
is
to
seek
new
acquaintance
with
life.

I
still
find
myself
following
creeks.
In
high
mountain
meadows
I'll
trace their course into the limegreen grass and deep glacial duff,
marveling at the sparkle of quartz and mica. The pursuit liquefies
my citified haste and lifts weight from my shoulders. Once, in the
California desert, as hummingbirds darted from cactus blossoms, I
heard
the
babble
of
rushing
water.
My
ears
led
me
over
dusty
hillsides
and
sown
scabrous
ravines
to
an
unexpected
ribbon
of
clear,
cold water, leaping from rock to rock, filling little pools. The
discovery seemed Biblical. It filled me with joy.

(191 words)

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30.

If one realizes that our time on this earth is but a tiny fraction
of that within the cosmos, then life calculation in years may not
be as important as we think. Why measure life in heartbeats When
life is so dependent on such an unreliable function as the beating
f the heart, then
it
is
fragile indeed.
The
only thing
that
one
can
depend upon with absolute certainty is death.

I
believe
that
death
may
be
the
most
important
part
of
life.
I
believe
that life is infinitesimally brief in relation to the immensity of
eternity. I believe, because of my religious faith, that I shall

I believe that though my life was short in years, it was full in
experience, joy, love and accomplishment; that my own immortality
will reside in the memories of my loved ones left behind, mother,
brother, wife, children, dear friends. I believe that I will die
with loved ones close by and, one hopes, achieve that great gift
of God-death in peace, and with dignity. (184 words)

by John A. Macdonald

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31. If I were a Boy Again (1)

If I were a boy again, I would practise perseverance oftener, and
never give up a thing because it was hard or inconvenient. If we
want light, we must conquer darkness. Perseverance can sometimes
equal genius in its results.
a
proverb,

can
surmount
the
pyramids
-the
eagle
and
the
snail.

If
I
were
a
boy
again,
I
would
school
myself
into
a
habit
of
attention;
I
would
let
nothing
come
between
me
and
the
subject
in
hand.
I
would
remember that a good skater never tries to skate in two directions
at
once.
The
habit
of
attention
becomes
part
of
our
life,
if
we
begin
early enough. I often hear grown-up people say,
my attention on the lecture or book, although I wished to do so,
and the reason is, the habit was not formed in youth.

If I were to live my life over again, I would pay more attention
to the cultivation of the memory. I would strengthen that faculty
by every possible means, and on every possible occasion. It takes
a
little
hard
work
at
first
to
remember
things
accurately;
but
memory
soon
helps
itself,
and
gives
very
little
trouble.
It
only
needs
early
cultivation to become a power. (213 words)

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32. If I were a Boy Again (2)

If I were a boy again, I would look on the cheerful side. Life is
very much like a mirror: if you smile upon it, it smiles back upon
you;
but
if
you
frown
and
look
doubtful
on
it,
you
will
get
a
similar
look in return.

Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but of all
that come in contact with it.
be shut from love.

If I were a boy again, I would school myself to say
I
might
write
pages
on
the
importance
of
learning
very
early
in
life
to gain that point where a young boy can stand erect, and decline
doing an unworthy act because it is unworthy.

If
I
were
a
boy
again,
I
would
demand
of
myself
more
courtesy
towards
my companions and friends, and indeed towards strangers as well.
The smallest courtesies along the rough roads of life are like the
little birds that sing to us all winter long, and make that season
of ice and snow more endurable.

Finally, instead of trying hard to happy, as if that were the sole
purpose of life, I would, if I were a boy again, try still harder
to make others happy. (211 words)

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33. Ways of Communication

When
you
speak,
write
a
letter,
or
make
a
telephone
call,
your
words
carry a message. People communicate with words. But do you know
people also communicate without words A smile on your face shows
you are happy or friendly. Tears in your eyes tell others that you
are sad. When you raise your hand in class, the teacher knows you
want to say something or ask questions. You shake your head and
people know you are saying
saying

Other things can also carry messages. For example, a sign at the
bus stop helps you to know which bus to take. A sign on the wall
of your school helps you to find the library. Signs on the doors
tell you where to go in or out. Have you ever noticed that there
area
lot
of
signs
around
you
and
that
you
receive
messages
from
them
all the time

People can communicate in many other ways. An artist can use his
drawings to tell about beautiful mountains, the blue seas and many
other
things.
Books
are
written
to
tell
you
about
all
the
wonderful
things in the world and what other people are thinking about.

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34. Touchy Topics

Immediately after
introductions
are
made there
is
usually a
period
of
time
in
which
impersonal
or
trivial
subjects
are
discussed.
This
type of
conversation,
called
talk
is important
because
it
often helps to keep conversations and can lead into interesting
discussions.

Usually
people
start
small
talk
by
asking
about
things
like
family,
work, school or sports. They ask each other questions like
live in this area
do you work

these
are
polite
questions.
They
are
not
personal
or
private.
But
it is uncommon and considered impolite to ask questions about a
person's salary, such as
ask how much money someone paid for something, for example,
much does your house cost
are,
but
it
is
not
polite
to
ask
old
people
about
their
age,
especially women. It is not polite to ask people questions about
politics or religion either unless you know them very well. People
don't ask unmarried people,
ask a married couple with no children,
children
meetings. (219 words)

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Money is a blessing when it is used rightly. The same is true of
all other good things. They bless id used well; they curse when
abused.
Many
people
do
not
seem
to
know
what
money
is
for.
They
want
it
above
all
things.
But
they
want
it
to
spend
chiefly
on
themselves.

Some
boys
appear
to
think
that
money
is
to
buy
good
clothes
and
foods,
toys and amusements. Some also seem to think that money is to buy
leisure with. They consider that the highest happiness is to live
without work. But that is not at all what money id for. We should
get nearer the truth than that.

Money is our circulating medium in trade. Families need it to buy
things they must have. In this way society exists, and the world
of
traffic
prospers.
Money
means
food,
clothing, dwelling
schools,
books, wise recreation, and the means of doing good. (153 words)

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36. What Money Is For (2)

Of course money is not something to hoard. It value is in its use.
A
million
gold
dollars
would
have
been
worth
no
more
than
a
million
stones to Robinson Crusoe on his island home. There was nothing to
buy, and therefore, no use for money. And so money that is simply
hoarded
is
of
no
value.
It
does
not
purchase
the
necessaries
of
life,
nor relieve those who are in want. That is not what money is for.

The Bible says that
That is, money sought for its own sake is the cause of all sorts
of evil -lying,
stealing,
cheating,
robbery,
and
even
murder.
This
is the best reason for avoiding the love of money. (127 words)

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37. Education

a Means to an End (1)

Education is not an end, but a means to an end. In other words, we
do
not
educate
children
only
for
the
purpose
of
educating
them;
our
purpose is to fit them for life. As soon as we realize this fact,
we will understand that it is very important to choose a good way
education which will really prepare children for life.

In many modern countries it has for some time been fashionable to
think that, by free education for all-whether rich or poor, clever
or stupid, one can solve all the problems of society and build a
perfect nation. But we can already see that free education for all
is
not
enough:
we
find
in
such
countries
a
far
larger
number
of
people
with
university
degrees
than
there
are
jobs
for
them
to
fill.
Because
of
their
degree,
they
refused
to
do
what
they
think

work;
and
in
fact,
work
with
hands
is
thought
to
be
dirty
and
shameful
in
such
countries. (165 words)

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38. Education

a Means to an End (2)

But we have to understand that the work of a completely uneducated
farmer is more important than that of a professor in a way: we can
live without education, but we die if we have no food. If no one
cleaned our streets and took the rubbish away from our houses, we
should
get
terrible
diseases
in
our
towns.
In
countries
where
there
are no servants because nobody is willing to so such work, the
professors have to waste of their time doing housework.

In fact, when we say that all of us must be educated to fit us for
life,
it
means
that
we
must
be
educated
in
such
a
way
that,
firstly,
each of us can do whatever job is suited to his brain and ability,
and secondly, that we can realize that all jobs are necessary to
society, and that it is very bad to be unwilling to do one's work,
or to laugh at someone else's. Only such a type of education can
be called valuable to society. (172 words)

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39. Blood, Toil, Sweat and Tears (1)

In this crisis I think I may be pardoned if I do not address the
House at any length today, and I hope that any of my friends and
colleagues or former colleagues who are affected by the political
reconstruction will make all allowances for any lack of ceremony
with which it has been necessary to act.

I say to the House as I said to Ministers who have joined this
government,
I
have
nothing
to
offer
but
blood,
toil,
sweat
and
tears.
We
have
before
us
an
ordeal
of
the
most
grievous
kind.
We
have
before
us many, many months of struggle and suffering.

You ask, what is our policy I say it is to wage war by land, sea
and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has
given
up,
and
to
wage
war
against
a
monstrous
tyranny
never
surpassed
in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our
policy.

(160 words)

by Winston Churchill

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40. Blood, Toil, Sweat and Tears (2)

You ask, what is our aim I can answer in one word. It is victory.
Victory
at
all
costs-victory
in
spite
of
all
terrors- victory,
however long and hand the road may be, for without victory there
is no survival.

Let
that
be
realizes.
No
survival
for
the
British
Empire,
no
survival
for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the
urge,
the
impulse
of
the
ages,
that
mankind
shall
move
forward
toward
his goal.

I take up my task in buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause
will not be suffered to fail among men.

I feel entitled at this juncture, at this time, to claim the aid
of all and to say,
united strength.

(292 words)

by Winston Churchill

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41. Science

a Way of Thinking

Many scientists,
from
their
earlier
work,
have
enough
knowledge
to
make good guesses as to the solution of a problem they are working
on. In making new discoveries, they may use the trial- and-error
method, they may draw on past experiences, or they may try to find
out
that
others
have
discovered.
They
may
design
new
investigations
and new ways of testing their results. Scientists have to train
themselves to use their brains efficiently; that is, they train
themselves to think.

For example, when Thomas A. Edison was trying to make an electric
lamp, he needed a substance for the filament inside the bulb that
would glow brightly without burning up quickly. He tried more than
thousand
different
filaments
before
he
found
one
that
he
could
use.
After each trial he thought about how the new substance had acted.
He kept notes and compared results. After he had experimented for
a long time, someone asked Mr. Edison if he were not discouraged
at the waste of time. He replied,
I
have
found
one
thousand
materials
that
won't
work.
Now
I
can
look
for
others.
Edison's
statement
is
all-important.
Above
all,
scientists demand to know when and where they are wrong. A good
question to ask in science is not

Scientists
spend
many
years
of
study, training themselves
in
using
their brains and the tools of investigation. They also use each
other's
work.
Issac
Newton,
a
British
scientist,
who
lived
over
300
years ago, said he saw further than others because he stood on the
shoulders of giants.

(269 words)

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42. Accurate or Polite


by
the
edge
of
the
road.
In
some
countries,
because
the
man
realizes
that the traveler is tired and eager to reach his destination, he
will politely say,
encouraging,
gentler,
and
therefore
the
wanted
answer.
So
the
American drives through the night, getting more and more angry,
feeling
obviously he must have known the distance quite well.

If conditions had been reversed, the American would have felt he
was
when he knew it was really 50 miles further on. Although he, too,
would be sympathetic to the weary driver, he would say,
a good way to go yet; it is at least 50 miles.
be disappointed, but he would know what to expect.

Whether to be accurate or polite leads to many misunderstandings
between
people
of
different
cultures.
If
you
are
aware
of
the
situation
in
advance,
it
is
sometimes
easier
to
recognize
the
problem. (195 words)

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43. The Importance of English (1)

There are thousands of languages in the world. Each language seems
to be the most important to those who speak it as their native
language.
This
is
not
strange
at
all,
seeing
that
it
is
the
language
they learned at their mothers' knees and may be the only language
many of them will ever know all their lives.

The importance of a language can be judged according to several
things. The first is the number of native speakers that a language
happens to have. The second is how widely the native speakers are
distributed over the world. Next comes the cultural, economic and
political influence of those who speak it as their mother tongue.

There can be no doubt now that English is one of the world's most
widely used languages. People use a language in three ways: as a
native language, as a second language, or as a foreign language.
English
is
spoken
as
a
native
language
by
nearly
300
million
people:
in
the
United
States,
Britain,
Australia,
New
Zealand,
Canada,
some
Caribbean
countries,
and
South
Africa.
As
a
second
language,
English
is often necessary for official business, education, information
and
other
activities
in
a
great
many
countries
such
as
India,
Pakistan,
Nigeria,
Singapore,
and
the
Philippines.
It
is
one
of
the
few

languages
of
the
United
Nations
and
is
more
frequently
used than the others. (228 words)

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44. The Importance of English (2)

It
is
said
that
English
has
become
the
language
of
the
international
trade and transport. Most planes traveling from one country to
another
use
it
to
talk
with
airports.
All
ships
sailing
on
the
oceans
call for help by radio in it. It has been said that 60 percent of
the
world's
radio
broadcasts
and
70
percent
of
the
world's
mail
are
in
English.
At
international
sports
meets,
at
meetings
of
scientists
from different countries, and at talks of writers and artists from
the
corners
of
the
earth,
English
is
the
language
most
commonly
used
and most widely understood.

English
has
in
fact
become
the
language
of
international
cooperation
in science and technology. The most advanced results in space,
nuclear and computer research are published in it. A scientist who
speaks and writes English is in close touch with the scientists in
other countries than one who doesn't. (148 words)

(376 words)

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45. Don't Give Up

If we should ever accomplish anything in life, let us not forget
that we must persevere. If we would learn our lessons in school,
we must be diligent and not give up whenever we come to anything
difficult. We shall find many of our lessons very hard, but let us
consider that the harder they are the better they will do us if we
will persevere and learn them thoroughly.

But there are some among us who are ready to give up when they come
to a hard example in mathematics, and say,
never
will
if
they
feel
so.

can't

never
did
anything
worthwhile;
but
meet with difficulties al through life. They are in the pathway of
everyone. If we will only try and keep trying, we shall be sure to
conquer and overcome every difficulty we meet with. If we have a
hard lesson
today, let
us
strive
to
learn
it
well and
then
we
shall
be prepared for a harder one tomorrow. And if we learn to master
hard lessons in school, it will prepare us to overcome the hard
things that we shall meet in life, when our school days are over.
(212 words)

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46. Colour and Life (1)

What is your favourite colour Do you like yellow, orange, red If
you
do,
you
must
be
an
optimist,
a
leader,
an
active
person
who
enjoys
life,
people
and
excitement.
Do
you
prefer
greys
and
blues
Then
you
are
probably
quiet,
shy,
and
you
would
rather
follow
than
lead.
You
tend to be a pessimist. At least, this is what psychologists tell
us,
and
they
should
know,
because
they
have
been
seriously
studying
the
meaning
of
colour
preference,
as
well
as
the
effect
that
colours
have on human beings. They tell us, among other facts, that we do
not choose our favourite colour as we grow up-we are born with our
preference.
If
you happen
to
love
brown,
you
did
so,
as soon
as
you
opened
your
eyes,
or
at
least
as
soon
as
you
could
see
clearly.
(139
words)

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47. Colour and Life (2)

Colours
do
influence
our
moods

there
is
no
doubt
about
it.
A
yellow
room makes most people feel more cheerful and more relaxed than a
dark
green
one;
and
a
red
dress
brings
warmth
and
cheer
to
the
saddest
winter day. On the other hand, black is depressing. A black bridge
over the Thames River, near London, used to be the scene of more
suicides than any other bridge in the area-until it was repainted
green. The number of suicide attempts immediately fell sharply;
perhaps it would have fallen even more if the bridge had been done
in pink or baby blue.

Light
and
bright
colours
make
people
not
only
happier
but
more
active.
It
is
an
established
fact
that
factory
workers
work
better,
harder,
and
have
fewer
accidents
when
their
machines
are
painted
rather
than
black or grey. (140 words)

(279 words))

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48. Companionship of Books (1)

A many may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the
company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as
of men; and one should always live in the best company.

A
good
book
may
be
among
the
best
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 with the
same kindness;
amusing
and
instructing
us
in
youth,
and
comforting
and consoling us in age.

Books posses an essence of immortality. They are by far the most
lasting products on human effort. Temples and statues decay, but
books
survive.
Time
is
of
no
account
with
great
thoughts,
which
are
as
fresh
today
as
when
they
first
passed
through
their
author's
minds
ages
ago.
What
was
then
said
and
thought
still
speaks
to
us
as
vividly
as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time has been to
sift
out
the
bad
products;
for
nothing
in
literature
can
long
survive
but what is really good. (188 words)

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49. Companionship of Books (2)

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.

The
great
and
good
do
not
die
even
in
this
world.
Embalmed
in
books,
their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an
intellect to which one still listens. Hence we ever remain under
the influence of the great men of old. The imperial intellects of
the world are as much alive now as they were ages ago. (132 words)

(320 words)

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50. On Idleness (1)

There are some that profess Idleness in its full dignity, who call
themselves
the
Idle,
who
boast
that
they
do
nothing,
and
thank
their
stars
that
they
have
nothing
to
do;
who
sleep
every
night
till
they
can sleep no longer, and rise only that exercise may enable them
to
sleep
again;
who
prolong
the
reign
of
darkness
by
double
curtains,
and never see the sun but to
whose whole labor is to vary the postures of indulgence, and whose
day differs from their night but as a couch or chair differs from
a bed.

These
are
the
true
and
open
votaries
of
Idleness,
for
whom
she
weaves
the garlands of poppies, and into whose cup she pours the waters
of
oblivion;
who
exist
in
a
state
of
unruffled
stupidity,
forgetting
and
forgotten;
who
have
long
ceased
to
live,
and
at
whole
death
the
survivors
can
only
say,
that
they
have
ceased
to
breathe.
(161
words)

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51. On Idleness (2)

But Idleness predominates in many lives where it is not suspected;
for being a vice which terminates in itself, it may be enjoyed
without injury to others; and it therefore not watched like fraud,
which endangers property, or like Pride, which naturally seeks it
gratifications in another's inferiority. Idleness is a silent and
peaceful
quality,
that neither raises envy by ostentation, nor
hatred by opposition; and therefore nobody is busy to censure or
detest it.

There are others to whom Idleness dictates another expedient, by
which life
may
be passed unprofitably away
without
the
tediousness
of
many
vacant
hours.
The
art
is,
to
fill
the
day
with
petty
business,
to
have
always
something
in
hand
which
may
raise
curiosity,
but
not
solicitude,
and
keep
the
mind
in
a
state
of
action,
but
not
of
labor.

No
man
is
so
much
open
to
conviction
as
the
idler,
but
there
is
none
on
whom
it
operates
so
little.
What
will
be
the
effect
of
this
paper
I know not: perhaps he will read it and laugh, and light the fire
in his furnace; but my hope is that he will quit his trifles, and
betake himself to rational and useful diligence. (199 words)

(360 words)

By Samuel Johnson (1709--1784)

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52. Bill Gates' Tips on the Makings of a Good Manager (1)

There isn't a magic formula for good management, of course, but id
you're
a
manager,
perhaps
these
tips
will
help
you
be
more
effective.

Choose a field thoughtfully. Make it one you enjoy. It's hard to
be
productive
without
genuine
enthusiasm.
This
true
whether
you're
a manager or employee.

2. Hire carefully and be willing to fire. You need a strong team,
because a mediocre team gives mediocre results, no matter how well
managed it is. One common mistake is holding onto somebody who
doesn't quite measure up. It's easy to keep this person on the job
because he's not terrible at what he does. But a good manager will

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