Chapter 6조동사

A child that always receives sympathy will continue to cry over little troubles; the ordinary self-control of the average adult is achieved only through knowledge that no sympathy will be won by making a loud complaint.

God was sorry that Adam and Eve had disobeyed Him. Sin and fear had spoiled the fellowship between them. God said to Eve, "Because you listened to the Tempter's voice and disobeyed me, you shall have pain and trouble all the days of your life.“

Man does not live by bread alone, but neither does he live by taking thought alone. I love to think, and talk and feel, but cannot forget that I have hands which clamor to be put to use, arms which will not hang idle.

Looking back, I infer that there must have been something in me a little superior to the common run of youths, otherwise the above-mentioned men, so much older than me and higher in academic position, would never have allowed me to associate with them.

The history of mankind is the history of man's activity, and so long as human nature and man's material conditions are what they are, so long must economic and industrial factors have a potent influence in our political and social life.

You may have heard of that lovely land called Italy, the land of golden sunshine and warm, soft air. There the skies are almost always blue -- such a wonderfully deep blue, that Italy is often called " The Land of Blue Skies.“

Language is a living thing. A word is like a plant or an animal. It comes into existence, it grows, changes its form, matures and falls into decay. Thus the science of language is as interesting and fascinating as Botany or Zoology, and the linguist who studies printed pages may well be compared to the naturalist who hunts the field for his specimen.

I have been asked to speak on the question how to make the best of life, but may as well confess at once that I know nothing about it. I cannot think that I have made the best of my own life, nor is it likely that I shall make much better of what may or may not remain to me.

Economic laws can no more be evaded than can gravitation. We might as well attempt to reverse the motion of the earth on its axis as attempt to reverse the industrial progress and send men back into the age of homespun.

A man should never be ashamed to admit he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

It is one of the most tragic facts in the recent development of science that the conquest of the air, which on all grounds should have worked towards the unification of the world and the harmony of mankind, has actually become our most threatening dangers.

I was gazing at the swans floating on the lake with happy thoughts in my minds, when who should touch me on the elbow but the little girl whom I had mentioned.?

I know that a fairly good income is very important; but it is still more important that a man should follow the vocation for which he is best fitted, whether it happens to be well paid or not.

Those Americans whom I most honor, and who were the founders of their country, never accepted money for their service. Washington would accept no salary as commander-in-chief for seven years, nor as president for eight years.

In gazing at a mountain range from a distance, the peaks seem to rise clear against the sky. There seem to be no obstacles to hinder him who would climb to the top.

But as you draw nearer, everything changes. What seemed so simple at a distance grows infinitely complex as you draw nearer. So is it with life.

With every passing day his health improved. "Ah," he would exclaim to me, “ island life had charms not to be found everywhere! Half the ills of mankind might be shaken off without doctor or medicine by mere residence in this lovely portion of the world.“

With all my faults I have a warm heart; and poor as I am, I would rather deny myself necessaries of life than do an ungenerous thing.

The milkman had a rival in early calling, and that rival is the newspaper boy. Both milk and news are required for breakfast and the London businessman would as soon do without the one as the other, the first being for his bodily refreshment and the second for his mental.

Her anger never lasted long, and, having humbly confessed her fault, she sincerely repented, and tried to do better. Her sisters used to say that they rather liked to get Jo into a fury, because she was such an angel afterwards.

The air of that island was so genial and balmy that we could have slept quite well without any shelter; but we were so little used to sleeping in the open air, that we did not quite relish the idea of lying down without any covering over us.