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发信人: icecap (冰蓝), 信区: English
标 题: Times
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2003年03月30日18:53:26 星期天), 站内信件
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas as those of a fool are
by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what
to do with it; as is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment
of it with useful or amusing thoughts, or in other words, because the one
is always wishing it away, and he other always enjoying it.
How different is the view of past life, in the man who is grown old in
knowledge and wisdom, from that of him who is grown in ignorance and folly?
The latter is like the owner of a barren country, that fills his eye with the
prospect of naked hills and plains, which produce nothing either profitable
or ornamental; the other beholds a beautiful and spacious landscape,
divided into delightful gardens, green meadows, fruitful fields, and can
scare cast his eye upon a single spot of his possessions, that is not covered
with so me beautiful plant or flower.
--Joseph Addison: On the Idea of Time
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Everyday we have
is one more than we deserve
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