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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.
“
Packing
”
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
The best friend a man has in the world
may turn against
him
and
become
his
son
or
daughter
that
he
has
reared
;.