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Passage1.
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
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
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
knowledgeand human reason to contend
against those giants,
Passage 2.
“
Packi
ng
”
a Person
A person, like a commodity, needs
going
too far is absolutely
undesirable.A little exaggeration, however,
does no harmwhen it shows the person's
unique qualities to
their
display
personal
charm
in
a
casual
and
natural way,it is important for one to
have a clear knowledge
of oneself.A
master packager knows how to integrate art and
nature without any traces of
embellishment,so that the person
so
packaged is no commodity but a human being, lively
and
lovely.A young person, especially a
female, radiant with beauty
and full of
life,has all the favor granted by attempt to
make up would be , however, comes and
goes in a moment of ing for the middle-
aged is
primarily to conceal the
furrows ploughed by you still
enjoy
life's
exuberance
enough
to
retain
self-confidenceand
.
pursue
pioneering
work,
you
are
unique
in
your
natural
qualities,and your charm and grace will
y people
are
beautiful
if
their
river
of
life
has
been,through
plains,
mountains
and
jungles,
running
its
course
as
it
have really
lived your life which now arrives at a complacent
stage of serenityindifferent to fame or
is no need
to resort to hair-
dyeing
；
the snow-capped
mountain is itself a
beautiful scene of
your looks change from young
to old
synchronizing with the natural ageing processso as
to
keep
in
harmony
with
nature,
for
harmony
itself
is
beauty,while
the
other
way
round
will
only
end
in
be in the elder's
company is like reading a
thick book of
deluxe editionthat fascinates one so much as to
be
reluctant
to
part
long
as
one
finds
where
one
stands,
one
knows
how
to
package
oneself,just
as
a
commodity establishes its brand by the
right packaging.
Passage 3. Three
Passions I Have Lived for
Three
passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have
governed
my
life:the
longing
for
love,
the
search
for
knowledge,and
unbearable
pity
for
the
suffering
of
passions,
like
great
winds,
have
blown
me
hither
and thither,in a wayward course over a deep ocean
of
.
anguish,reaching
to
the
very
verge
of
despair.I
have
sought
love,
first,
because
it
brings
ecstasy
—
ecstasy
so
great
that
I
would
often
have
sacrificed
all
the
rest
of
my
lifefor
a
few
hours
for
this
joy.I
have
sought
it,
next,
because
it
relieves
loneliness
—
that
terrible
loneliness
in
which
one
shivering
consciousnesslooks
over
the
rim
of
the
world
into
the
cold
unfathomable lifeless abyss.I have
sought it, finally, because in
the
union
of
love
I
have
seen,in
a
mystic
miniature,the
prefiguring
vision
of
the
heaven
that
saints
and
poets
have
is what I sought, and
though it might seem too
good for human
life,this is what
—
at
last
—
I have
equal
passion
I
have
sought
knowledge.I
have
wished
to
understand the hearts of men.I have
wished to know why the
stars shine ...A
little of this, but not much, I have
and
knowledge,
so
far
as
they
were
possible,
led
upward
toward
the
always
pity
brought
me
back
to
of cries
of pain reverberate in my en
in famine,
victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old
people
—
a
hated
burden
to
their
sons,and
the
whole
world
of
loneliness, poverty, and pain make a
mockery of what human
life should be.I
long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I
too
has
been
my
life.I
have
found
it
worth
living, and
.
would gladly live it againif the chance
were offered me.
Passage 4. A Little
Girl
Sitting on a grassy grave, beneath
one of the windows of
the church, was a
little her head bent back she was
gazing up at the sky and singing,while
one of her little hands
was pointing to
a tiny cloudthat hovered like a golden feather
above
her
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
completely
absorbed was she in watching the cloud to which
her
strange
song
or
incantation
seemed
addressed,that
she
did
not
observe
me
when
I
rose
and
went
towards
her head, high up in the blue,a lark
that was soaring towards
the same gauzy
cloud was singing, as if in
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
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 were quivering in the
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
lly
the
other
features,
especially
the
sensitive
full-lipped
mouth,grew
upon
me
as
I
stood
silently
seemed
to
me
a
more
perfect
beauty
than
had
ever
come to me in my loveliest dreams of it was
not
her
beauty
so
much
as
the
look
she
gave
me
that
fascinated me, melted me.
Passage 5 Declaration of Independence
When
in
the
Course
of
human
events,it
becomes
necessary for one people to dissolve
the political bands
which have
connected them with another,and to assume
among the powers of the earth,the
separate and equal station
to
which
the
Laws
of
Nature
and
of
Nature's
God
entitle
them,a decent
respect to the opinions of mankindrequires that
they
should
declare
the
causes
which
impel
them
to
the
hold
these
truths
to
be
self-evident,
that
all
men are
created equal,that they are endowed by their
Creator
with
certain
unalienable
Rights,that
among
these
are
Life,
Liberty
and
the
pursuit
of
Happiness.
—
That
to
secure
these
rights, Governments are instituted
among Men,deriving their
just
powers
from
the
consent
of
the
governed,
—
That
whenever
any
Form
of
Government
becomes
destructive
of
.
these ends,it is the Right of the
People to alter or to abolish
it,and
to
institute
new
Government,laying
its
foundation
on
such principles and
organizing
its powers in
such form,as
to
them
shall
seem
most
likely
to
effect
their
Safety
and
ce,
indeed,
will
dictate
that
Governments
long
establishedshould not be changed for light and
transient
causes;and accordingly all
experience has shown,that mankind
are
more disposed to suffer, while evils are
sufferable,than to
right
themselves
by
abolishing
the
forms
to
which
they
are
when
a
long
train
of
abuses
and
usurpations,pursuing
invariably
the
same
Object
evinces
a
design
to
reduce
themunder
absolute
Despotism,
it
is
their
right,
it
is
their
duty,to
throw
off
such
Government,
and
to
provide new Guards for
their future security.
—
Such
has been
the patient sufferance of
these Colonies;and such is now the
necessity which constrains them to
alter their former Systems
of
history
of
the
present
King
of
Great
Britainis
a
history
of
repeated
injuries
and
usurpations,all
having
in
direct
object
the
establishment
of
an
absolute
Tyranny over these prove this, let
Facts be submitted
to a candid world.
Passage 6. A Tribute to the Dog