英语杂志摘抄

All for one, one for all. 人人为我，我为人人。

—— [法] Dumas pére大仲马 The darkest hour is that before the dawn. 黎明前的时分是最黑暗的。—— Fuller 富勒 Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. 生活而无目标，犹如航海之无指南针。

—— J. Ruskin 鲁斯金 A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. 手中的一只鸟胜于林中的两只鸟。—— Heywood 希伍德 A man may lead a horse to the water, but he cannot make it drink. 一个人可以把马带到河边，但他不能令它饮水。

—— Heywood 希伍德 One cannot eat one's cake and have it. 一个人不能把他的糕饼吃掉之后还留在手上。 —— Davies 戴维斯 Time and tide wait for no man. 时间不等人。

—— Scott 斯科特 There is no rose without a thorn. 没有玫瑰花是不长刺的。—— Ray 雷 Lookers-on see most of the game. 旁观者清。

—— Smedley 斯密莱 Beggars cannot be choosers. 行乞者不得有选择。—— Heywood 希伍德 Victory won't come to me unless I go to it. 胜利是不会向我走来的，我必须自己走向胜利。

—— M. Moore 穆尔 A great man is always willing to be little. 伟大的人物总是愿意当小人物的。—— R. W. Emerson 爱默生 Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real. 但凡人能想象到的事物，必定有人能将它实现。

—— Jules Verne 凡尔纳 Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. 早睡早起使人健康、富裕又聪明。—— Benjamin Franklin 富兰克林 Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. 生活只是由一系列下决心的努力所构成。

—— T. Fuller 富勒 Goals determine what you are going to be. 目标决定你将成为为什么样的人。—— Julius Erving欧文 All human wisdom is summed up in two words ?C wait and hope. 人类所有的智慧可以归结为两个词 — 等待和希望。

—— Alexandre Dumas Pére大仲马（法国作家） It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious for？ 光勤劳是不够的，蚂蚁也是勤劳的。要看你为什么而勤劳。

—— H. D. Thoreau梭罗 You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success. 人必须相信自己，这是成功的秘诀。—— Charles Chaplin卓别林 I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. 我不缅怀过去的历史，而致力于未来的梦想。

—— T. Jefferson 杰弗逊（美国第3任总统） We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it. 我们要尽可能为生活增加一些东西，而不是从中索取什么。—— William Osler 奥斯勒 Life itself, without the assistance of colleges and universities, is becoming an advanced institution of learning. 没有学院和大学的帮助，人生本身也正在变成一所高等学府。

—— Thomas Alva Edison 爱迪生 Work while you work; Play while you play; This is the way; To be cheerful and gay. 工作时工作， 玩乐是玩乐， 依此方法做， 轻松与欢乐。—— A. D. Stoddart 斯道达特 Advice when most needed is least heeded. 忠言逆耳。

After a storm comes a calm. 否极泰来。 All roads lead to Rome. 条条大道通罗马（行行出状元） All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 只工作不消遣，使人迟钝。

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. 以眼还眼，以牙还牙。 A contented mind is a perpetual feast. 知足常乐。

A fault confessed is half redressed. 肯认错是改过的一半。A friend in need is a friend indeed. 患难之友，乃为真友。

A little learning is a dangerous thing. 一知半解最危险。 A man is known by the company he keeps. 观其友，知其人。

A stitch in time saves nine. 及时行事，事半功倍。 B ↑top Bad news travels fast. 恶事传千里。

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 情人眼里出西施。 Beggars must not be choosers. 饥者不得择食。

Better late than never. 宁迟勿缺（亡羊补牢才不为迟）；只要开始，虽晚不迟；过则勿惮改。 Birds of a feather flock together. 物以类聚。

今天下午，我写完作业后，闲着没事干.这时，妈妈说她要到楼上搞卫生.我一听，顿时心血来潮，想：何不帮妈妈干点活儿！

于是，我便对妈妈说：“妈妈，我也和您一起打扫好吗？”妈妈说：“也好，可以给你锻炼锻炼.我擦地面，你就擦电视机柜、写字台一类的吧！”

这时，我已经迫不及待了，忙对妈妈说：“妈妈，我们快上去吧！”于是，我便和妈妈来到了儿楼.我拿起抹布浸湿后，就干了起来.

我先来到客厅里，擦电视机柜马上面不满了灰尘，好象是敌军占领了一片土地.这时，我向它们发起了“进攻”，把那些“士兵”杀个片甲不留，夺回了“领地”.

接着，我又向茶几上的“敌军”进行“扫荡”.不一会儿，这些“敌军”就被我击溃了.

刚抹了一会儿，抹布就很脏了.我便来到水池边，把抹布洗净后，又继续干了起来.

大约过了半个钟头，我已经把窗户、台灯、写字台都擦遍了，这时，它们就像新的一般.手抹上去，一点灰尘也没有.

我迅速地往妈妈那里跑去，向妈妈汇报我的“战绩”.

今天，我总算为家里做了一件有意义的事，心里别提有多高兴了

总统先生，奥巴马夫人，女士们，先生们，朋友们：很高兴应奥巴马总统邀请，在一元复始的时节来到华盛顿，对美国进行国事访问。

此时此刻，我谨代表13亿中国人民，向美国人民致以诚挚的问候和良好的祝愿！PRESIDENT HU: (As translated.) Mr. President, Mrs. Obama, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, it gives me great pleasure to come to Washington and pay a state visit to the United States at the beginning of the new year, at the invitation of President Obama. At this point in time, let me extend, on behalf of the billion Chinese people, sincere greetings and best wishes to the people of the United States.我这次访问美国，是为增进互信、加强友谊、深化合作、推动21世纪积极合作全面的中美关系继续向前发展而来。I have come to the United States to increase mutual trust, enhance friendship, deepen cooperation, and push forward the positive, cooperative, and comprehensive . relationship for the 21st century.中美建交32年来，两国关系已经成长为具有战略意义和全球影响的双边关系。

奥巴马总统就职以来，在双方共同努力下，两国各领域合作成果丰硕，中美关系得到新的发展，为两国人民带来了实实在在的利益，为世界和平与发展作出了重要贡献。Over the past 32 years, since the establishment of diplomatic ties, the . relationship has grown into one with strategic significance and global influence. Since President Obama took office, with concerted efforts of the two sides, our cooperation in various fields has produced fruitful results and our relations have achieved new progress. This has brought real benefits to our two peoples, and contributed greatly to world peace and development.在21世纪第二个十年开始之际，中美两国人民都期待中美关系发展得更好，各国人民都期待世界发展得更好。

面对新形势新挑战，中美两国拥有广泛的共同利益，肩负着重要的共同责任。我们应该登高望远、求同存异，共同推动中美关系长期健康稳定发展。

我希望通过这次访问，推进积极合作全面的中美关系，开启两国伙伴合作新篇章。As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, the people of both China and the United States want to see further progress in our relations and people around the globe want to see greater prosperity in the world. Under the new circumstances, and in the face of new challenges, China and the United States share broad common interests and important common should adopt a long-term perspective, seek common ground while resolving differences, and work together to achieve sustained, sound, and steady development of our relations. I hope that through this visit, our two countries will advance the positive, cooperative, and comprehensive relationship, and open a new chapter in our cooperation as partners.——中美伙伴合作应该基于相互尊重。

我们生活在一个越来越丰富多彩的世界之中。中美两国要尊重彼此对发展道路的选择，尊重对方核心利益，通过沟通加深了解，通过对话增进互信，通过交流扩大共识。

Our cooperation as partners should be based on mutual respect. We live in an increasingly diverse and colorful world. China and the United States should respect each other's choice of development path and each other's core interests. We should deepen mutual understanding through communication, increase mutual trust through dialogue, and expand common ground through exchanges.——中美伙伴合作应该基于互利共赢。中国的前途命运日益紧密地同世界的前途命运联系在一起，中美交往更加紧密，交流互鉴应该成为我们的共同选择，合作共赢应该成为我们的相处之道。

Our cooperation as partners should be based on mutual benefit. China's future and destiny are increasingly tied to those of the world and . relations have become closer. Our two countries should seek to learn from each other through exchanges and achieve win-win progress through cooperation. This is the right approach for us to develop our relations.——中美伙伴合作应该基于共迎挑战。中美两国应该就国际事务加强沟通和协调，合作应对各种全球性挑战，为世界和平与发展作出更大贡献。

Our cooperation as partners should be based on joint efforts to meet challenges. China and the United States should step up communication and coordination in international affairs, work together to counter the global challenges, and make a greater contribution to world peace and development.——中美伙伴合作应该基于人民广泛参与。中美两国人民相互怀有深厚的友好感情，曾经在决定人类前途命运的重大历史关头并肩战斗。

两国人民应该扩大交往、加强友谊，为中美关系发展提供不竭动力。Our cooperation as partners should be based on the extensive involvement of the 。

with your hands in the air.举手出来 with your hands in the air = 我们更熟悉的：with your hands up 'll make you a deal if you don't move a muscle,i won't blow your head off. 我跟你说好，只要你乖乖着.我就不打爆你的头 not move a muscle=毫不动容，不变神色 此外，在美国俚语中be on the muscle =准备动武； 准备蛮干 在口语中flex one's muscles =小试身手 on the muscle =用暴力方式；气势汹汹的 over . 靠边，靠岸，开到路边 发现这是michael经常跟linc说的话----“把车停到一边”，每当linc问"why"的时候，michael都是一脸懒得跟你解释的那种神情说"just pull over" commitment to help others,and i put you in a place that's every doctor's nightmare. 你承诺帮助他人，我却让你陷入医生的恶梦中 commitment to=许诺 'm going to take a leak. 我去小解 leak=泄漏； take a leak =小解 's a nasty contusion.那是恶意殴打 nasty=令人不快的；恶意的 ； contusion=殴打；打伤 you think i can pull some strings to keep you out of gen can't do that. 如果你以为我能让你不关禁闭，那么你错了 pull strings=在幕后操作 gen pop是lockdown的口语说法，意为"一级防范紧闭" 're already done irreparable damage. 他们已经造成了不可挽回的损失 irreparable=不可挽回的 ； ir-为"不"的前缀 reparable=可修复的，可挽回的 tape purported to be made by escaped convicts lincoln burrows and michael scofield was immediarely dismissed by the justice department. 逃犯lincoln与michael做的可疑录影带被司法部门立即驳回 purported=可疑的 （purport=意义，主旨） dismiss=[法律]不受理.dismiss还有“打发，解散，开除”的意思 dumped it off the front page and buried it.他们把这事从报纸头条撤下并隐瞒起来 dump=倾倒，抛弃 我们常在电影里听到的"He/She dumped me"的意思就是“他/她甩了我” front page=报纸上的头版头条，也可用"page one" 's a hail mary,man.这是孤注一掷，老兄 hail mary原指祷告者向圣母玛丽亚求救，而在美国口语中通常是指当成功的机率非常小时，做绝望的尝试 'm guessing they're spoon-feeding us every lead they want us to follow. 我猜他们想让我们顺着他们铺的路去白忙一场 spoon-feeding=填鸭式 spoon-feeding education=填鸭式教育 if this is just one giant setup？如何这是个巨大的圈套呢？ giant=巨大的；伟大的 ； setup=陷阱，圈套 didn't drive all this way to gloat. 我跑这么远不是来嘲笑你的 gloat=幸灾乐祸 girl bailed on you back in Gila.这女孩在Gila都没跟你走 我们在PB里常见的bail的用法为“保释”，而bail还有个常用词义为“离开”。

I plan to get up early in the morning andgo to bed early in the evening from now on, in this case I can have enough timeto eat breakfast, because breakfast is very important for our health. I alsocan keep enough sleeping time, so I can be energetic to study.。

【关于“感谢”的名言】 One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls. ~David Thomas Not what we give,But what we share,For the gift without the giver Is bare.~James Russell Lowell Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. ~. Stern I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks. ~William Shakespeare The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~John E. Southard I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~. Chesterton I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom. ~Author Unknown The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. ~Oscar Wilde Gratitude is the memory of the heart. ~Jean Baptiste Massieu, translated from French How far that little candle throws his beams!So shines a good deed in a naughty world.~William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, much later adapted to "So shines a good deed in a weary world" by David Seltzer for the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. ~Author Unknown Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Mark Twain How beautiful a day can be When kindness touches it!~George Elliston We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. ~Benjamin Disraeli Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel. ~Author Unknown Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. ~William Feather 【关于“爱”的名言】 The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder. ~Charles Morgan You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum" Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. ~Ovid Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. ~Eric Fromm Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. ~Kahlil Gibran Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975 Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949 Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb Do I love you because you're beautiful,Or are you beautiful because I love you?~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.~Rosemonde Gerard Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate! ~Sandra J. Dykes Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ~Mark Overby Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb The lover is a monotheist who knows that other 。

1. You are expecting too much of him。 He's still green,you know.（你对他要求太高。他还没经验嘛）

2. It was blue Monday and he just didn't feel like going back to work.（又是倒霉的星期一，该上班了，他可真不愿意。）

3. Since he was made manager, the company has been running in he black.（自从他当了经理以后，公司一直盈利。）

4. The mere mention of his hatec cousin's name was like waving a red flag in front of him；（只要一提他那个讨厌的表兄弟的名字，他就生气。）

5. Paul was in a blue mood。（保尔情绪低落）

6. The Children were as busy as bees,making Preparations for the festival.（孩子们准备过节忙得象蜜蜂一样。）

7. He doesn't have an idea of his own. He just parrots what other people say.（他没有自己的观点，只会鹦鹉学舌.）

8. He's as sly as a fox. He's foxy. You've got to watch him.（他滑得象个狐狸。他很狡猾。对他你可要当心点儿。）

9. You ass! You stupid ass! How could you do a thing like that？！（你这头驴！你这头蠢驴！怎么会干出那种事儿来？！）

time is racing toward us。 时不待我 sometimes you have to be your own hero 。 有时候，你必须要做自己的英雄

美文,不禁浮现出一个美丽的情境,赋予优美的语境和丰富的情感;美文,不禁联想到一种美幻的意境,充满情感的体验和丰富的表达。我整理了英语美文摘抄带翻译，欢迎阅读!

英语励志短文

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of what's next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

无论是60岁还是16岁，你需要保持永不衰竭的好奇心、永不熄灭的孩提般求知的渴望和追求事业成功的欢乐与热情。在你我的心底，有一座无线电台，它能在多长时间里接收到人间万物传递来的美好、希望、欢乐、鼓舞和力量的信息，你就会年轻多长时间。

An individual human existence should be like a river—small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.

人的生命应当像河流，开始是涓涓细流，受两岸的限制而十分狭窄，尔后奔腾咆哮，翻过危岩，飞越瀑布，河面渐渐开阔，河岸也随之向两边隐去，最后水流平缓，森森无际，汇入大海之中，个人就这样毫无痛苦地消失了。

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

青春意味着战胜懦弱的那股大丈夫气概和摈弃安逸的那种冒险精神。往往一个60岁的老者比一个20岁的青年更多一点这种劲头。人老不仅仅是岁月流逝所致，更主要的是不思进取的结果。

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

光阴可以在颜面上留下印记，而热情之火的熄灭则在心灵上刻下皱纹。烦恼、恐惧、缺乏自信会扭曲人的灵魂，并将青春化为灰烬。

眼睛会说话

Much meaning can be conveyed, clearly, with our eyes, so it is often said that eyes can speak.

我们的眼睛能准确地传达一些信息，所以人们常说，眼睛会说话。

Do you have such kind of experience? In a bus you may look at stranger, but not too long. And if he is sensing that he is being stared at, he may feel uncomfortable.

你有过类似的体验吗?在公共汽车上，你可能会看着一个陌生人，但时间不会太长。而且，如果他能感觉到有人盯着他，会觉得浑身不自在。

The same in daily life. If you are looked at for more than necessary, you will look at yourself up and down, to see if there is anything wrong with you. If nothing goes wrong, you will feel angry toward other’s stare with you that way. Eyes do speak, right?

日常生活中亦如此。如果别人一直盯着你看，你就会不由自主地审视自己，看看是不是有什么地方弄错了。如果一切正常，你就会对别人的这种盯梢很气愤。眼睛确实能说话，不是吗?

Looking too long at someone may seem to be rude and aggressive. But things are different when it comes to stare at the opposite sex. If a man glances at a woman for more than 10 seconds and refuses to avert his gaze, his intentions are obvious, that is, he wishes to attract her attention, to make her understand that he is admiring her.

过久的盯着别人看会给人一种粗鲁和侵犯的感觉。但异性之间的凝视就不同了。如果一个男人盯着一个女人超过10秒钟，还不想挪开视线的话，他的意思就十分明显了，他想引起她的注意，想让她知道他爱慕她。

However, the normal eye contact for two people engaged in conversation is that the speaker will only look at the listener from time to time, in order to make sure that the listener does pay attention to what the former is speaking, to tell him that he is attentive.

正常情况下，两人交谈时，目光接触能传达这样的意思：说者偶尔看看听者，以此确认听着是否在认真倾听。而对于听者来说，他会一直看着说话的人，以此告诉他，自己正专心致志的听着。

If a speaker looks at you continuously when speaking, as if he tries to dominate you, you will feel disconcerted. A poor liar usually exposes himself by looking too long at the victim, since he believes in the false idea that to look straight in the eye is a sign of honest communication. Quite the contrary.

假如与你说话的那个人直直的盯着你，好像要镇住你似的，你便会感到惶恐不安。一般地，说谎者往往就是看别人的时间过长，而令人起疑。因为他们以为直视别人的眼睛是诚实沟通的表现，结果恰恰相反。

In fact, continuous eye contact is confined to lovers only, who will enjoy looking at each other tenderly for a long time, to show affection that words cannot express.

实际上，长时间的相互凝视仅适合情人之间，他们喜欢温柔的对视，用目光来传达言语无法表达的爱意。

Evidently, eye contact should be done according to the relationship between two people and the specific situation.

显然，目光交流应该根据双方的关系和特定场合来进行。

热爱生活

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not as bad as you are.

不论你的生活如何卑贱，你要面对它生活，不要躲避它，更别用恶言咒骂它。它不像你那样坏。

It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.

你最富有的时候，倒是看似最穷。爱找缺点的人就是到天堂里也能找到缺点。

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 man's 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.

你要爱你的生活，尽管它贫穷。甚至在一个济贫院里，你也还有愉快、高兴、光荣的时候。夕阳反射在济贫院的窗上，像身在富户人家窗上一样光亮;在那门前，积雪同在早春融化。我只看到，一个从容的人，在哪里也像在皇宫中一样，生活得心满意足而富有愉快的思想。

The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any. Maybe 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.

城镇中的穷人，我看，倒往往是过着最独立不羁的生活。也许因为他们很伟大，所以受之无愧。大多数人以为他们是超然的，不靠城镇来支援他们;可是事实上他们是往往利用了不正当的手段来对付生活，他们是毫不超脱的，毋宁是不体面的。

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.

视贫穷如园中之花而像圣人一样耕植它吧!不要找新的花样，无论是新的朋友或新的衣服，来麻烦你自己。找旧的，回到那里去。

Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

万物不变，是我们在变。你的衣服可以卖掉，但要保留你的思想。

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Self-control is essential to happiness and usefulness. It is the master of all the virtues,andhas its root in self-respect. Let a man yield to his impulses and passions, and from thatmoment he gives up his moral freedom.

It is the self-discipline of a man that enables him to pursue success with superior diligenceand of the great characters in history illustrate this trait. In ordinary life theapplication is the who would lead must first command himself. The time of test iswhen everybody is excited or angry,then the well-balanced mind comes to the front.

There is a very special demand for the cultivation of his trait at young men whorush into business with no good education or drill will do poor and feverish is amuch better test of character than act of heroism.

A fair amount of self-examination is good. Self-knowledge is a preface to self-control. Toomuch self-inspection leads to morbidness; too little conducts to careless and hasty are two things which will surely strengthen our self-control. One is attention toconscience; the other is a spirit of good man who would succeed in any greatundertaking must hold all his faculties under perfect control; they must be disciplined anddrilled until they quickly and cheerfully obey the will.

In the future days, which we seek to make secure,we look forward to a world founded uponfour essential human freedoms.

The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world.

The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way - everywhere in theworld.

The third is freedom from want - which, translated into world terms, means economicunderstandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peace time life for its inhabitants -everywhere in the world.

The fourth is freedom from fear - which, translated into world terms, means a world widereduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will bein a position to commit an actof physical aggression against any neighbor - anywhere in theworld.

That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable inour own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so called neworder of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.

To that new order we oppose the greater conception - the moral order. A good society is ableto face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.

Since the beginning of our American history we have been engaged in change - in a perpetualpeaceful revolution - a revolution which goes on steadily, quietly adjusting itself to changingconditions - without theconcentration camp or the quicklime in the ditch. The world order whichwe seek is the cooperation of freecountries, working together in a friendly civilized society.

This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free menand women;and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means thesupremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gainthose rights and keep them. Our strength is in our unityof purpose.

To that high concept there can be no end save victory.

While popular in the ., the April Fool’s Day tradition is even more prevalent in Europeancountries,such as France and Great Britain. Although the roots of the traditional trickings areunclear,the French andthe British both have claims on the origin of the celebration.

One theory holds that the first April Fool’s Day was on April 1 of the year when King of Franceinstituted the new new system placed the day that had formerly been the firstday of a new year on April people were reluctant to adjust to the new calandar andcontinued to celebrate New Year’s Day on what had become the first day of , theybecome the first April began to give gaggifts on the day to mock the foolishnessof thosewho continued to celebrate the new year on April 1.

An English story about the day, however, holds that it began sometime during the time, King John of England was in the habit of making a road out of nearly every path hewalked citizensof one particular farm village were aware of avoid havingtheir green meadows and pastures disturbed with one of the king’s roads,they built a fencethat prevented the king from walking through their king sent a group ofmessengers to inform the villagers that they must remove the hearing that theking was planning to do this, however, the villagers developed a plan of their arrived, they found what appeared to be a community of lunatics,with peoplebehaving in a bizarre manner, throwing things and running around messengers,alarmed at what they had found, reported to king John that these people were so mad as tobe beyond , the villagers saved their farmland by tricking the King. In GreatBritain,tradition only allows April Fool’s tricks from midnightto noon on April 1. Those who try toplay tricks in the afternoon become the fools themselves.