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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 entrance into WWII. The show is informative about the American Constitution, law, the definition of civil liberties, and other intellectual and fascinating topics.

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 and worthy persons (whereof the memory remaineth, either ancient or recent) there is not one, that hath been transported to the mad degree of love: which shows that great spirits, and great business, do ke...

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, as, in the case of Napoleon I. But there have been few, if any, instances where a man was made emperor three times without knowing why and apparently without relishing it. Believe it or not, Mr. Henry Puy...

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 keep'st, Hourly afflict: merely, thou art death's fool; For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun And yet runn'st toward him still. Thou art not noble; For all the accommodations that thou bear'st Are nursed...

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 whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flower, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle; A gown made of the fin...

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 brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts: How many cowards, whose hearts are a...

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 and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sac...

The Declaration of Independence

A Transcription: http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/

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 holy rest. From Thee, O Lord, we spring, to Thee we tend, Thou First and Last! Beginning Thou, and End!

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 years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair – these are the long, long years th...