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英语美文 All that is beautiful （上） 第一篇：a grain of sand 一粒沙子 　　　　 william blake/威廉.布莱克 to see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild fllower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour. 从一粒沙子看到一个世界， 从一朵野花看到一个天堂， 把握在你手心里的就是无限， 永恒也就消融于一个时辰。 第二篇：love your life 　 热爱生活 　　　　 henry david thoreau/享利.大卫.梭罗 However mean your life is meet it and live it ; do not shun it and call it hard names; it is not so bad as you are. it looks poorest when you are richest, the fault-finder will find faults in paradise. love your life, poor as it is. you may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. the setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich mans abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there,and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace. the towns poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any. may be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving. Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means. which should be more disreputable. cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends, turn the old, return to them. things do not change, we change. sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. 不论