[高中生勵志英語美文摘抄大全]青春勵志英語美文摘抄

1、本文格式為word版，下載可任意編輯高中生勵志英語美文摘抄大全青春勵志英語美文摘抄 勵志訓練是一種促進同學成長的進展性訓練,關心他們正確對待困難與挫折,可以提高同學的語文素養(yǎng)和職業(yè)適應力量。我細心收集了高中生勵志英語美文，供大家觀賞學習! 高中生勵志英語美文：freedom is worth the risk the philosopher george santayana, at the age of eighty-eight, admitted that things no longer seemed so simple to him as they did fifty years ago

2、. even those of use who have not reached mr. santayanas age must share that feeling; but we must act by the best light we have, hoping that the light will grow brighter- and we have reason to hope it will, so long as men remain free to think. the most important thing in the world, i believe, is the

3、freedom of the mind. all progress, and all other freedoms, spring from that. it is a dangerous freedom, but this is a dangerous world. you cannot think right without running the risk of thinking wrong; but for any evils that may come from thinking, the cure is more thinking. over much of the world,

4、at present, the freedom of the mind is suppressed. we have got to preserve it here, despite the efforts of very earnest men to suppress itmen who say, and perhaps believe, that they are actuated by patriotism, but who are doing their best to destroy the liberties which above all are what the united

5、states of america has meant, to its people and to humanity. this is perhaps a less personal statement than most of those in " this i believe'. if so, it is because a man of my age, in his relation to himself, runs mostly on momentum; and it is a little difficult to look back and figure out

6、what give him the push, or the various pushes. what he has to consider now is what he can contribute to the present, or the future, as a member of a very peculiar speciespossibly even a unique specieswhich has immense capacities for both good and evil, as it has amply demonstrated during its recorde

7、d history. that history to date is -barring some unpredictable cosmic disaster-the barest beginning of what may lie ahead of us. but we happen to live in one of the turning points of historyby no means the first, as it will not be the last; and the future of mankind will be more than usually affecte

8、d by what we do in this generation. what should we do? well, first of all and above all, preserve freedom, and extend it if we can. beyond that i dont know how better to define our business than to say we should try to promote an increase of decency. decency in the sense of respect for other people;

9、 of taking no advantage; of never saying,' this man must be miserable in order that i may be comfortable.' this is not as easy as it looks; its impossible to exist without hurting somebody, however unintentionally. but there are limits. i do not believe that human life is accurately represen

10、ted by viggelands famous sculptured column in oslo, of people climbing over one another and trampling one anther down. the nazis, when they occupied norway, greatly admired that sculpture. they would. but the rest of us can do better than that; many men and women in every age have done better, and a

11、re doing it still. the scottish scientist j.b.s.haldane once said that the people who can make a positive contribution to human progress are few; that most of us have to be satisfied with merely staving off the inroads of chaos. that is a hard enough jobespecially in these times, when those inroads

12、are more threatening that they have been for a long time past. but if we can stave them off, and keep the field clear for the creative intelligence, we can feel that we have done our part toward helping the human race get ahead. 高中生勵志英語美文：my fathers evening star by william o. douglas during moments

13、of sadness or frustration, i often think of a family scene years ago in the town of yakima, washington. i was about seven or eight years old at the time. father had died a few years earlier. mother was sitting in the living room talking to me, telling me what a wonderful man father was. she told me

14、of his last illness and death. she told me of his departure from cleveland, washington, to portland, oregonfor what proved to be a fatal operation. his last words to her were these: "if i die it will be glory, if i live it will be grace.' i remember how those words puzzled me. i could not u

15、nderstand why it would be glory to die. it would be glory to live, that i could understand. but why it would be glory to die was something i did not understand until later. then one day in a moment of great crisis i came to understand the words of my father. "if i die it will be glory, if i liv

16、e it will be grace.' that was his evening star. the faith in a power greater than man. that was the faith of our fathers. a belief in a god who controlled man in the universe, that manifested itself in different ways to different people. it was written by scholars and learned men in dozens of di

17、fferent creeds. but riding high above all secular controversies was a faith in one who was the creator, the giver of life, the omnipotent. mans age-long effort has been to be free. throughout time he has struggled against some form of tyranny that would enslave his mind or his body. so far in this c

18、entury, three epidemics of it have been let loose in the world. we can keep our freedom through the increasing crisis of history only if we are self-reliant enough to be freedollars, guns, and all the wondrous products of science and the machine will not be enough. "this night thy soul shall be

19、 required of thee.' these days i see graft and corruption reach high into government. these days i see people afraid to speak their minds because someone will think they are unorthodox and therefore disloyal. these days i see america identified more and more with material things, less and less with spiritual standards. these days i see am