True Nubility

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In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

But all sunshine without shade,all plea­sure without pain,is not life at all.Take the lot of the happiest — it is a tangled yarn.Bereave­ments and blessings,one following another,make us sad and blessed by turns.Even death it­self makes life more loving.Men come closest to their true selves in the sober moments of life,under the shadows of sorrow and loss.

In the affairs of life or of business,it is not intellect that tells so much as character,not brains so much as heart,not genius so much as self- control,patience,and discipline,regulated by judgment.

I have always believed that the man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.In an age of ex­travagance and waste,1 wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are.

To regret one's errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance.There is noth­ing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

在风平浪静的海面上,每一个人都可以成为领航员。(剩余306字)

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