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Daily Quote
 
 For both excessive and deficient exercise ruin bodily strength, and, similarly, too much or too little eating or drinking ruins health, whereas only moderation can produce, increase, and maintain physical strength and health. (Aristotle)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
 By Ezra Pound
 
 长干行（二首）
 李白
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 我喜欢出发
 汪国真

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
 
 My Shadow
 By Robert Louis Stevenson
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 八月的乡村
 萧军

Daily Quote
 
 You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things... It doesn't frighten me. (Richard P. Feynman)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 The Map
 Elizabeth Bishop
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Around the world in eighty days
 Jules Gabriel Verne

Daily Quote
 
 Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. (J.K. Rowling)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 鄂州南楼书事
 黄庭坚
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 On Pleasure
 Epicurus

Daily Quote
 
 兵形象水，水之行，避高而趋下；兵之形，避实而击虚。（《孙子兵法》）
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Lift Not the Painted Veil 
 Percy Bysshe Shelley
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 The Age of Innocence
 Edith Wharton

Daily Quote
 
 For both excessive and deficient exercise ruin bodily strength, and, similarly, too much or too little eating or drinking ruins health, whereas only moderation can produce, increase, and maintain physical strength and health. (Aristotle)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Autumn Refrain
 Wallace Stevens
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 The Walden
 Henry David Thoreau

Daily Quote
 
 How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. (John Burroughs)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 The Last Rose of Summer
 Thomas Moore
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 赤壁赋
 苏轼

Daily Quote
 
 No man is really happy or safe without a hobby. (William Osler)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
 By Ezra Pound
 After Li Po
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 我喜欢出发
 汪国真

Daily Quote
 
 Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see. (Edgar Allan Poe)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Results and Roses
 Edgar Albert Guest
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 The Bean-field
 Henry David Thoreau

Daily Quote
 
 兵形象水，水之行，避高而趋下；兵之形，避实而击虚。（《孙子兵法》）
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 白雪歌送武判官归京
 岑参
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 谁是最可爱的人（节选）
 魏巍

Daily Quote
 
 And all our knowledge is, ourselves to know. (Alexander Pope)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 寄黄几复
 黄庭坚
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 The Age of Innocence – Chapter 3
 Edith Wharton

Daily Quote
 
 One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is: ‘Whatever you do, don’t be boring. (Anne Sexton)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Lift Not the Painted Veil 
 Percy Bysshe Shelley
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 A Tale of Two Cities – Chapter 3 The Night Shadows
 Charles Dickens

Daily Quote
 
 Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. (Albert Camus)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 The Wild Honeysuckle
 Philip Freneau
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 The Joys of Writing
 Winston Churchill

Daily Quote
 
 The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses. (Thomas Hardy)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 渔家·卖得鲜鱼二百钱
 郑燮
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 The Bean-field
 Henry David Thoreau

Daily Quote
 
 Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see. (Edgar Allan Poe)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 The Purple Cow
 Gelett Burgess
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 从百草园到三味书屋
 鲁迅

Daily Quote
 
 To be good is to be in harmony with one’s self. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others. (Oscar Wilde)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Results and Roses
 Edgar Albert Guest
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 听海的心 
 迟子建

Daily Quote
 
 I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. (Jorge Luis Borges)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 夏夜
 何其芳
 
 Beauty Words
 
 The Widow and Her Son
 Washington Irving

Daily Quote
 
 We can never know things as they are in themselves, only as they appear to us. (Immanuel Kant)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 The Wild Honeysuckle
 Philip Freneau
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 雨的四季
 刘湛秋

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
 
 Summer Evening
 By William Cullen Bryant
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 The Joys of Writing
 Winston Churchill

Daily Quote
 
 Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. (Albert Camus)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Bath
 By Amy Lowell
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 北平的四季
 郁达夫
 
 天窗
 茅盾
 
 呼兰河传·后花园
 萧红

Daily Quote
 
 The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become. (Heraclitus)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 满庭芳·蜗角虚名
 苏轼
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 The Secret Garden
 Frances Hodgson Burnett

Daily Quote
 
 We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side. (James Baldwin)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 宫词
 白居易
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 The Widow and Her Son
 Washington Irving

Daily Quote
 
 I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. (Jorge Luis Borges)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 渔翁
 柳宗元
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Every Man’s Natural Desire to Be Somebody Else
 Samuel Mc Chord Crothers

Daily Quote
 
 If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked... and live well and die happy. (Charles Dickens)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 夏夜
 何其芳
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 忆滇缅路
 萧乾

Daily Quote
 
 人生天地之间，若白驹之过隙，忽然而已。（《庄子•知北游》）
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 The Fish 
 by Mary Oliver
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Emma
 Jane Austen

Daily Quote
 
 The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become. (Heraclitus)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Silent Noon
 Dante Gabriel Rossetti
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 The Secret Garden
 Frances Hodgson Burnett

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
 Virginia Woolf

Daily Quote
 
 道路总是曲折的，前途总是光明的。（毛泽东）
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 江南第一燕
 瞿秋白
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 红岩
 罗广斌、杨益言

Daily Quote
 
 Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. (John Donne)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 What can I hold you with?
 By Jorge Luis Borges
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 On Cottages in General
 Helen Allingham & Stewart Dick

Daily Quote
 
 人生天地之间，若白驹之过隙，忽然而已。（《庄子•知北游》）
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 I dwell in Possibility
 Emily Dickinson
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 And Then There Were None
 Agatha Christie

Daily Quote
 
 The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. (Marcel Proust)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 The Fish 
 by Mary Oliver
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Emma
 Jane Austen

Daily Quote
 
 I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. (Edward Gibbon)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 山亭夏日
 高骈
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 The Man in Black 
 Oliver Goldsmith

Daily Quote
 
 There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. (Leo Tolstoy)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 满庭芳·夏日溧水无想山作
 周邦彦
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 On Cottages in General
 Helen Allingham & Stewart Dick

Daily Quote
 
 One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better. (Oscar Wilde)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 What can I hold you with?
 By Jorge Luis Borges
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 夏至（节选）
 史振亚

Daily Quote
 
 Nature never deceives us; it is always us who deceive ourselves. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 错误
 郑愁予
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Thinking Like a Mountain 
 Aldo Leopold

Daily Quote
 
 Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. (John Donne)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 虞美人·舟过吴江
 蒋捷
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Far from the Madding Crowd
 Thomas Hardy

Daily Quote
 
 I cannot choose the best. The best chooses me. (Rabindranath Tagore)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Clouds
 Wisława Szymborska
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Black Beauty
 Anna Sewell

Daily Quote
 
 Cattlemen who cleared their ranges of wolves did not realize that they were taking over the wolf’s job of adjusting the number of cattle to the size of the pasture. They have not learned to think like a mountain. Hence we have dustbowls, and rivers carrying future soils to the sea. (Aldo Leopold)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 满庭芳·夏日溧水无想山作
 周邦彦
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 我的第一位美国老师
 冯亦代

Daily Quote
 
 Grander than the sea is the sky, grander than the sky is the conscience. (Victor Hugo)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 The Summer Day
 Mary Oliver
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 On Cottages in General
 Helen Allingham & Stewart Dick

Daily Quote
 
 There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. (Leo Tolstoy)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 初夏即事
 王安石
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Martin Eden
 Jack London

Daily Quote
 
 Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. (Pythagoras)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 The Wave
 Hilda Doolittle
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 假如我有九条命
 余光中

​Daily Quote
 
 I cannot choose the best. The best chooses me. (Rabindranath Tagore)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 The Road Not Taken
 by Robert Frost
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Norwegian Wood
 Haruki Murakami

Daily Quote
 
 夫云者，水之征、山之灵所泄也。（恽敬）
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Clouds
 Wisława Szymborska
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Black Beauty
 Anna Sewell

Daily Quote
 
 In early June, the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different. (John Steinbeck)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Summer Night, Riverside
 By Sara Teasdale
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 Pride and Prejudice
 By Jane Austen

Daily Quote
 
 If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. (John Bunyan)
 
 你若希望你的孩子总是能够脚踏实地，那就要让他们承担一些责任。（约翰•班扬）
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 村居
 高鼎
 
 稚子弄冰
 杨万里
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 The Wind in the Willows
 Kenneth Grahame

Daily Quote
 
 五月五日午，赠我一枝艾。（文天祥）
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 浣溪沙·端午
 苏轼
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 端午的鸭蛋
 汪曾祺

Daily Quote
 
 Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. (Pythagoras)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 约客
 宋・赵师秀
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 A letter from a father to a son – Ted Hughes to his son Nicholas

Daily Quote
 
 The least possible amount of sin is the law of man: no sin at all is the dream of angels. All that is earthly is subjected to sin, for sin is a gravitation. (Victor Hugo)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 The Wave
 Hilda Doolittle
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 假如我有九条命
 余光中

Daily Quote
 
 Where fierce indignation can no longer tear his heart. 
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 The Wild Iris
 Louise Glück
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 冬牧场
 李娟

Daily Quote
 
 Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light. (Thales of Miletus)
 
 Poem of the Day
 
 Ever and Ever I Feel It
 Herman Hesse
 
 Beauty of Words
 
 槐花
 季羡林