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| Title: The Strenuous Life Summery: When we are doing something, we should do our best. Even we ever failed in something, we get more experiences. My opinions: When we were children, we just play and enjoy our live. When we are students now, we should just do the best for study. Doing and learning is the best way for me. It is a good way to learn fast and best. The Strenuous Life by Theodore Roosevelt A life of slothful ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as an individual. We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious efforts, the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. Freedom form effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. A man can be freed from the necessity of work only by the face that he or his fathers before him have worked to good purpose. If the freedom thus purchased is used aright, and the man still does actual work, though of a different kind, whether as a writer or a general, whether in the field of politics or in the field of exploration and adventure, he shows he deserves his good fortune. But if he treats the period of freedom from the need of actual labor as a period, not of preparation, but of mere enjoyment, even though perhaps not of vicious enjoyment, he shows that he is simply a cumberer of the earth's surface; and he surely unfits himself to hold his own place with his fellows, if the need to do so should again arise. A mere life of ease is not in the end a very satisfactory life, and, above all, it is a life which ultimately unfits those who follow it for serious work in the world. As it is with the individual, so it is with the nation. It is a base untruth to say that happy is the nation that has no history. Thrice happy is the nation that has a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because the live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. from: 英語散文集 大地出版社 |
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