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Speaking of Liberty with Lin Yutang 《名家谈自由》之 林语堂
Speaking of Liberty is an old time radio show which focuses on the importance and value of citizenship and liberty for all people regardless of race, creed, or color. The show features top writers, reporters, and intellectuals as they reflect about the meaning of democracy on the eve of America's...
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Of Love 培根论爱情
Of Love by Francis Bacon The stage is more beholding to love, than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief; sometimes like a siren, sometimes like a fury. You may observe, that amongst all the great…
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EMPEROR MALGRE LUI 不自在的皇帝(溥儀)
EMPEROR MALGRE LUI 不自在的皇帝 --选自《Imperfect Understanding 不够知己》温源宁 著 In the long history of mankind there have been many commoners made emperors; there have been many emperors forced to abdicate the throne;there have also been some exiled emperors who made a successful struggle back to the throne…
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Measure for Measure - Act 3, Scene 1
Act 3, Scene 1 DUKE VINCENTIO Be absolute for death; either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences, That dost this habitation, where thou…
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Christopher Marlowe VS Sir Walter Raleigh
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe 1599 Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, hills, and fields Woods or steepy mountain yields And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow rivers to...
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The Merchant of Venice: Act 3, Scene 2 威尼斯商人 第三幕第二场
The Merchant of Venice Act 3, Scene 2 BASSANIO So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober…
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What I Have Lived For by Bertrand Russell
The Prologue to Bertrand Russell's Autobiography What 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 mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither...
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The Declaration of Independence
A Transcription: http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/
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Translation of Boethius
Translation of Boethius by Samuel Johnson O Thou whose pow'r o'er moving worlds presides, whose voice created and whose wisdom guides: on our dark world in purest brightness shine and cheer the clouded mind with light Divine. 'Tis Thine alone to calm the troubled breast with silent confidence and...
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YOUTH By Samuel Ullman
YOUTH By Samuel Ullman Youth is not a time of life – it is a state of mind, it is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over love of ease. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of...
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To be, or not to be (from Hamlet 3/1)
To be, or not to be (from Hamlet 3/1) by William Shakespeare To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a...
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Ode To A Nightingale 夜鶯頌 by John Keats
"Ode To A Nightingale" John Keats My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness,-- That…
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