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Daily Quote
 
 生命就是且缓一口气再讲，明天再说明天的。（老舍）
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Three Shadows
 Dante Gabriel Rossetti
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 On Pleasure
 Epicurus

Daily Quote
 
 A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. (George Bernard Shaw)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 秋思
 陆游
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 怒
 梁实秋

Daily Quote
 
 生命的意义在于付出，在于给予，而不是在于接受，也不是在于索取。（巴金）
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 秋天
 顾城
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Mrs. Dalloway
 Virginia Woolf

Daily Quote
 
 Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower, we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind – the beauty of leaves in their ever-changing colors. (William Wordsworth)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Chrysanthemums ——planted for Tao Yuan Ming, who likes mum
 Robert Bly
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 The Book Thief
 Markus Zusak

Daily Quote
 
 The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. (Albert Einstein)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Why Flowers Change Colour
 Robert Herrick
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 印度洋上的秋思
 徐志摩

Daily Quote
 
 Destiny is like a dust storm; you have nowhere to hide. (Haruki Murakami)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Gift
 Czesław Miłosz
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Murder on the Orient Express
 Agatha Christie

Daily Quote
 
 You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well. (C. S. Lewis)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 瑶池
 李商隐
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Charlotte’s Web (Chapter 2)
 E. B. White

Daily Quote
 
 It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Happiness
 Herman Hesse
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 竹影
 丰子恺

Daily Quote
 
 I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. (Anne Frank)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 青溪
 王维
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Modern Fiction
 Virginia Woolf

Daily Quote
 
 There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. (Gilbert K. Chesterton)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Chrysanthemums ——planted for Tao Yuan Ming, who likes mum
 Robert Bly
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 The Lady of the Camellias
 Alexandre Dumas, fils

Daily Quote
 
 Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower, we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind – the beauty of leaves in their ever-changing colors. (William Wordsworth)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Fall, Leaves, Fall
 Emily Jane Bronte
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Autumnal Tints
 by Henry David Thoreau

Daily Quote
 
 Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. (Aristotle)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 The Last Bargain
 By Rabindranath Tagore
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 鼎湖山听泉
 谢大光

Daily Quote
 
 It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 The Sound of Trees
 Robert Frost
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 The Book Thief
 Markus Zusak

Daily Quote
 
 If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, my dreams presage some joyful news at hand. (William Shakespeare)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Happiness
 Herman Hesse
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 箱子岩（节选）
 沈从文（戴乃迭 译）

Daily Quote
 
 There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see. (Leonardo da Vinci)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 In the Fog
 Herman Hesse
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 竹影
 丰子恺

Daily Quote
 
 Many of the miseries of life are due to our sacrificing the future for the present; the happiness of years that are to come, for the satisfaction of the moment. (John Lubbock)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 白头吟
 卓文君
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Eugene O'Neil to His Son

Daily Quote
 
 It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly. (Claude Monet)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 The Birch Tree
 Sergei Yesenin
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 将离
 叶圣陶

Daily Quote
 
 The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. (Socrates)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 The Other Side of a Mirror
 by Mary Coleridge
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Dorothy Osborne’s Letters
 Virginia Woolf

Daily Quote
 
 None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway. (Allen Ginsberg)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Hymn of Pan
 By Percy Bysshe Shelley
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 秋雨·山林
 陈心华

Daily Quote
 
 As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see. (Vincent Van Gogh)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 菊花
 元稹
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Kurt Vonnegut to His Family

Daily Quote
 
 The October evening wind sweeps through the vineyard like an invisible violin, sounding both ripeness and decay. (Hermann Hesse)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 秋词
 刘禹锡
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Altogether Autumn

Daily Quote
 
 What governs the Englishman is his inner atmosphere, the weather in his soul. (George Santayana)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Images
 Richard Aldington
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 The Remains of the Day
 By Kazuo Ishiguro

野望
 王绩
 
 Ode to Autumn
 John Keats
 
 秋来之后
 席慕容
 
 Autumn Evening
 Robinson Jeffers
 
 十五夜望月
 王建
 
 望月怀远
 张九龄

Daily Quote
 
 The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 One
 by Mary Oliver
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 隐身衣（节选）
 杨绛

中英双语美文欣赏，感受聆听文学之美，享受学习语言之乐。

Daily Quote
 
 我有我的人格、良心，不是钱能买的。我的音乐，要献给祖国，献给劳动人民大众，为挽救民族危机服务。（冼星海）
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 示儿
 陆游
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 异国秋思
 庐隐

Daily Quote
 
 Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. (Robert Browning)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 秋风辞
 刘彻
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 A Word for Autumn
 A.A. Milne

Daily Quote
 
 Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives. (Alexander Pope)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 When I Have Fears
 John Keats
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 To Kill a Mockingbird (Excerpt)
 By Harper Lee

Daily Quote
 
 The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 A Drinking Song
 William Butler Yeats
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Kurt Vonnegut to His Family

Daily Quote
 
 As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see. (Vincent Van Gogh)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 One
 by Mary Oliver
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Tess of the d’urbervilles
 Thomas Hardy

Daily Quote
 
 Life is not as good as you imagine, nor as bad as you imagine. (Guy de Maupassant)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 菊花
 元稹
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 隐身衣（节选）
 杨绛

Daily Quote
 
 Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. (Adam Smith)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Sleeping in the Forest
 by Mary Oliver
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 鼎湖山听泉
 谢大光

Daily Quote
 
 Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives. (Alexander Pope)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 脚步
 何其芳
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Eugene O'Neil to His Son

Daily Quote
 
 Many of the miseries of life are due to our sacrificing the future for the present; the happiness of years that are to come, for the satisfaction of the moment. (John Lubbock)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 白头吟
 卓文君
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 To Kill a Mockingbird (Excerpt)
 By Harper Lee

Daily Quote
 
 天地有四时，莫病于酷暑，而莫善于初秋。（龚自珍）
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 太行春感
 朱德
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Gone with the Wind – Chapter 5
 Margaret Mitchell

Daily Quote
 
 Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. (Adam Smith)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 The Last Bargain
 By Rabindranath Tagore
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Rain
 by W. Somerset Maugham

Daily Quote
 
 Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. (Aristotle)
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 师说
 韩愈
 
 当教师的快乐
 冰心

Daily Quote
 
 The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. (Henry David Thoreau)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Sleeping in the Forest
 by Mary Oliver
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 鼎湖山听泉
 谢大光

Daily Quote
 
 闻谤而怒者，谗之囮也；见誉而喜者，佞之媒也。（小窗幽记）
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 满庭芳•蜗角虚名
 苏轼
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 To the Lighthouse
 Adeline Virginia Woolf

Daily Quote
 
 A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. (Charles Darwin)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Going and Staying
 by Thomas Hardy
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Of Fortune
 by Francis Bacon

Daily Quote
 
 你须把细心放在大胆里，去且战且走。你须把受委屈当作生活，而从委屈中咂摸出一点甜味来，好使你还肯活下去。（老舍）
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 太行春感
 朱德
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 荷花淀
 孙犁

Daily Quote
 
 天地有四时，莫病于酷暑，而莫善于初秋。（龚自珍）
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Blackberry-Picking
 By Seamus Heaney
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 故都的秋
 郁达夫

Daily Quote
 
 Money can indeed bring happiness, but there is a certain limit, beyond which the effect is not so obvious. (Yuval Noah Harari)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 I saw thee weep
 George Gordon Byron
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 夏天
 汪曾祺

Daily Quote
 
 If our dreams come true, we are almost afraid to believe it; for that is the best of all good fortune, and nothing better can happen to any of us. (Willa Cather)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 蝶恋花·庭院深深深几许
 欧阳修
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Salvation
 Langston Hughes

Daily Quote
 
 I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. (Little Women by Louisa May Alcott)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Autumn
 Emily Dickinson
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 The Long Shadow
 John Hampson

Daily Quote
 
 “Why did you do all this for me?” he asked. “I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.” “You have been my friend,” replied Charlotte. “That in itself is a tremendous thing.” (Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 A Summer Evening Churchyard
 Lechlade, Gloucestershire
 By Percy Bysshe Shelley
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 The Delights of Books
 Sir John Lubbock

Daily Quote
 
 All things are in flux; the universal flux is governed by a unifying principle or Logos. This principle brings together opposites in harmonious tension, like the bow and lyre where tension between opposing forces creates stable harmony. (Heraclitus)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 鄂州南楼书事
 黄庭坚
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Around the world in eighty days
 Jules Gabriel Verne

Daily Quote
 
 Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. (Ernest Hemingway)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Fairy Tale
 By Robert Desnos
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 夏天
 汪曾祺

Daily Quote
 
 Money can indeed bring happiness, but there is a certain limit, beyond which the effect is not so obvious. (Yuval Noah Harari)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 江村
 杜甫
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Gone with the Wind
 Margaret Mitchell

Daily Quote
 
 I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. (Walt Disney)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 I saw thee weep
 George Gordon Byron
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 The Battle of the Red and the Black Ants
 Henry David Thoreau