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一、 励志感悟
[00:00.14] Perseverance
[00:05.17]Perseverance depends on three things-purpose, will, enthusiasm.
[00:10.46] He who has a purpose is always concentrating his forces.
[00:15.88]By the will, the hope and plan are prevented from evaporating into dreams,
[00:22.36]and a little gain is all the time being added. Enthusiasm keeps the interest up,
[00:29.64]and makes the obstacles seem small.
[00:32.98]The man who thinks to get on by mere smartness and
[00:37.61] by idling meets failure at last.
[00:40.89]Life is in a sense a battle.
[00:43.44] Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls,
[00:48.13]and holds the key to those treasure-houses of knowledge
[00:52.23]from which the world has drawn its wealth both of wisdom and of moral worth.
[00:58.37]Great men never wait for opportunities;
[01:01.30]they make them. They seize upon whatever is at hand,
[01:05.73] work out their problem, and master the situation.
[01:09.53] The greatest thing a man can do in this world is
[01:13.32]to make the most possible out of the stuff
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[01:16.93]that has been given to him. This is success,
[01:20.18]and there is no other.
[01:22.47]One of the first lessons of life is to learn how to get victory out of defeat.
[01:28.22]It takes courage and stamina,
[01:31.05]when mortified
and embarrassed by
humiliating disaster, [01:35.30]to seek in the wreck or ruins the elements of future conquest.
[01:40.59] Yet this measures the difference between those
[01:44.31] who succeed and those who fail.
[01:46.53]You cannot measure a man by his failures.
[01:49.64]You must know what use he makes of them.
[01:53.51]A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from hard surroundings,
[02:00.18] is the price of all great achievements.
[02:03.54]The man who has not fought his way upward,
[02:07.26]and does not bear the scar of desperate conflict,
[02:11.15] does not know the highest meaning of success.
[00:00.11] The Two Roads
[00:04.36]It was New Year's Night. An aged man was standing at a window.
[00:08.03]He raised his mournful eyes towards the deep blue sky,
[00:12.69]where the stars were floating like
[00:15.62]white lilies on the surface of a clear calm lake.
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[00:17.70] Then he cast them on the earth,
[00:22.50] where few more hopeless people than himself now
[00:26.70] moved towards their certain goal-the tomb.
[00:29.96] He had already passed sixty of the stages leading to it,
[00:34.25]and he had brought from his journey nothing but errors and remorse.
[00:38.33]Now his health was poor, his mind vacant, his heart sorrowful,
[00:43.76]and his old age short of comforts.
[00:46.43]The days of his youth appeared like dreams before him,
[00:50.66]and he recalled the serious moment
[00:53.59]when his father placed him at the entrance of the two roads—
[00:57.28]one leading to a peaceful, sunny place,
[01:00.64] covered with flowers, fruits and resounding with soft,
[01:05.15]sweet songs; the other leading to a deep,
[01:08.62]dark cave, which was endless,
[01:11.32]where poison flowed instead of water and
[01:14.28] where devils and poisonous snakes hissed and crawled.
[01:17.84]He looked towards the sky and cried painfully,
[01:21.64]“O youth, return! O my father,
[01:25.04]place me once more at the entrance to life,
[01:28.00] and I'll choose the better way!”
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