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1 and I would therefore offer it to the consideration of those who superintend（管理） the education of our youth, whether, since many of those who begin with the Latin quit the same after spending some years without having made any great proficiency, and what they have learnt becomes almost useless, so that their time has been lost, it would not have been better to have begun with the French, proceeding to the Italian, etc.; for, tho, after spending the same time, they should quit the study of languages and never arrive at the Latin, they would, however, have acquired another tongue or two, that, being in modern use, might be serviceable to them in common life.（Benjamin Franklin autobiography）2 TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead that slumbers（睡眠的人）, And things are not what they seem. 不要在哀伤的诗句里告诉我： “人生不过是一场幻梦！” 灵魂睡着了，就等于死了， 事物的真相与外表不同(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A psalm of life 人生颂 )3So live, that when thy summons comes to joinThe innumerable caravan, which movesTo that mysterious realm（王国）, where each shall takeHis chamber（房间） in the silent halls of death,Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothedBy an unfaltering trust, approach thy graveLike one who wraps the drapery of his couchAbout him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. 所以活着，直到被召唤去加入那庞大的篷车旅行的队伍，向着神秘的王国前进，人人都将在死亡沉寂的殿堂里找到自己的房间不要像矿场的奴隶一样在深夜被鞭笞进黑暗的地牢；而要带着平静的抚慰和永恒的信仰，走进你的墓穴，打开你华丽的铺盖躺下去，进入甜美的梦乡。 (William cullen Bryant Thanatopsis论死亡) 4No, no, cried Hawkeye, who had been gazing with a yearning look at the rigid features of his friend, with something like his own self-command, but whose philosophy could endure no longer; no, Sagamore, not alone.（James Fenimore cooper ）5 The pedagogues mouth watered as he looked upon this sumptuous promise of luxurious winter fare. In his devouring minds eye, he pictured to himself every roasting-pig running about with a pudding in his belly, and an apple in his mouth; the pigeons were snugly put to bed in a comfortable pie, and tucked in with a coverlet of crust; the geese were swimming in their own gravy; and the ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce.(无头骑士the legend of sleepy hollow Washington Irving)6 Society everywhere is in conspiracy（密谋） against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.( self-reliance Ralph waldo emerson)7To go into solitude（隐居）, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime.(nature Ralph waldo emerson)8I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary(Walden henry david thoreau)9Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable（寓言） tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies（矮人） we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness. Our life is frittered away by detail.(Walden henry daivd Thoreau )10And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sittingOn the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;And his eyes have all the seeming of a demons that is dreaming,And the lamp-light oer him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floorShall be lifted - nevermore!(Raven edgar allan poe)11 O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weatherd every rack, the prize we sought is won; （ walt whitman）12 The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring: But O heart! heart! heart! 5 O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” (leaves of grasses walt whitman)13“Im Nobody! Who are you? Are you Nobody too? Then theres a pair of us? Dont tell! Theyd advertise you know!”(Emily Elizabeth Dickson ) 14“Goodwives,” said a hard-featured dame of fifty, “Ill tell ye a piece of my mind. It would be greatly for the public behoof, if we women, being of mature age and church-members in good repute, should have the handling of such malefactresses as this Hester Prynne. What think ye, gossips?(the scarlet letter Nathaniel hawthorne )15People say, said another, that the Reverend Master Dimmesdale, her godly pastor, takes it very grievously to heart that such a scandal should have come upon his congregation.(the scarlet letter Nathaniel hawthorne)16 Call me Ishmael. Some years ago-never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation.(Moby Dick Herman Melville)17A dead leaf fell in Soapys lap. That was Jack Frosts card. Jack is kind to the regular denizens of Madison Square, and gives fair warning of his annual call. At the corners of four streets he hands his pasteboard to the North Wind, footman of the mansion of All Outdoors, so that the inhabitants thereof may make ready.(The Cop and the Anthem O.Henry)18She went to the open door and stood in it and looked out among the tomato vines and jimpson weeds that constituted the garden. No Tom. So she lifted up her voice at an angle calculated for distance and shouted:Y-o-u-u TOM!(The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain)19You dont know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that aint no matter.(The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain)20When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sisters address in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in money.(Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser)21“Ruth, this is Mr. Eden.”The book was closed on his forefinger, and before he turned he was thrilling to the first new impression, which was not of the girl, but of her brothers words. (Martin Eden Jack London)22You dont know where to turn. Turn straight to me. I want to persuade you to trust me,” Goodwood repeated Isabel gave a long murmur, like a creature in pain; it was as if he were pressing something that hurt her.(A Portrait of a Lady Henry James )23The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.( A Station of the Metro Ezra Pound ) 24April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.(The Waste Land T.S.Eliot)25We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!(The Hollow Men T.S.Eliot)26I placed a jar in Tennessee,And round it was, upon a hill.It made the slovenly wildernessSurround that hill.(Anecdote of the Jar Wallace Stevens)27So on we worked and waited for the light, And went without the meat and cursed the bread, And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet in h