How Do I Love Thee ? 
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height to
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of 1)Being and 2)ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.

It was New Year\'s Night. An aged man was standing at a window. He raised his mournful eyes towards the deep blue sky, where the stars were floating like white lilies on the surface of a clear calm lake. Then he cast them on the earth, where few more hopeless people than himself now moved towards their certain goal——the tomb. He had already passed

  When I first read this line by England’s Poet Laureate, it startled me. What did Masefield mean? Without thinking about it much, I had always assumed that the opposite was true. But his sober assurance was arresting. I could not forget it.
Finally, I seemed to grasp his meaning and realized that here was a profound obs

The last few days have found me very restless. This evening as I sat in the yard to enjoy the cool, it struck me how different the lotus pool I pass every day must look under a full moon. The moon was sailing higher and higher up the heavens, the sound of childish laughter had died away from the lane beyond our wall, and my wife was in the house pa

Homesick （乡愁）
余光中?
小时候，乡愁是一枚小小的邮票，
我在这头，母亲在那头。
长大后，乡愁是一张窄窄的船票，
我在这头，新娘在那头。
后来啊!乡愁是一方矮矮的坟墓，
我在外头，母亲在里头。
而现在，乡愁是一湾浅浅的海峡，
我在这头，大陆在那头。

Once upon a time a teacher and his student lay down under the big tree near the big grass area. Then suddenly the student asked the teacher.
　　"Teacher, I'm confused, how do we find our soul mate? Can you please help me?"
　　Silent for a few seconds, the teacher then answered, "Well, it's a pretty hard and an easy question."

　　Most people need to hear those “three little words” I love you. Once in a while, they hear them just in time.
　　I met Connie the day she was admitted to the hospice1 ward, where I worked as a volunteer. Her husband, Bill, stood nervously nearby as she was transferred from the gurney2 to the hospital bed. Although Connie was in the fina

Broken Wings, Flying Heart
翅膀断了，我心飞翔   就像文中所说的那样：“不同的人生态度决定了生活的本质”，本文将以两个真实的故事展现两个人不同的人生态度。对照彼此，你的人生态度又是什么呢？反思自己的人生，希望你能从中有所收获。
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中国古代的臣民

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My Cyber Love
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After about

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