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fevol侯

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[交流] If I Rest, I Rust

The significant inscription found on an old key---“If I rest, I rust”---would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness. Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately, cannot do the work required of them.

    Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use, so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gate that guard the entrances to the professions, to science, art, literature, agriculture---every department of human endeavor.

    Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement. If Hugh Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry, had devoted his evenings to rest and recreation, he would never have become a famous geologist. The celebrated mathematician, Edmund Stone, would never have published a mathematical dictionary, never have found the key to science of mathematics, if he had given his spare moments to idleness, had the little Scotch lad, Ferguson, allowed the busy brain to go to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string of beads, he would never have become a famous astronomer.

    Labor vanquishes all---not inconstant, spasmodic, or ill-directed labor; but faithful, unremitting, daily effort toward a well-directed purpose. Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring success.
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小木虫: 沙发+1,金币+0.5, 恭喜抢个沙发,再给个红包
2楼2012-11-06 15:56:07
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小木虫: 金币+0.2, 抢了个小板凳,给个红包
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rchiuctw

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Or further, become ruined
零星落索,一贫如洗,两袖清风,三餐不继,四壁徒空,五内如焚,六神无主,七窍生烟,八方受敌,九死一生,十分危殆,百感交集,千夫所指,万念俱灰
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Emma唐

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4楼: Originally posted by rchiuctw at 2012-11-06 16:52:08
Or further, become ruined

this is a sharp one
甜是一种态度
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rchiuctw

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5楼: Originally posted by Emma唐 at 2012-11-06 17:13:05
this is a sharp one...

零星落索,一贫如洗,两袖清风,三餐不继,四壁徒空,五内如焚,六神无主,七窍生烟,八方受敌,九死一生,十分危殆,百感交集,千夫所指,万念俱灰
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curton: 金币+2, it is important to find a balance between gaining and sharing 2012-11-08 15:04:25
find a balance between gaining and sharing, it's not that easy.
甜是一种态度
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winter_north: 金币+1, The pressure! 2012-11-07 00:49:52
No rest, rabbits caught. Still in the society, no rest, no artist, everybody in a haste, only afraid that he's not the best.
Befreeinyourway,justliketheshinninglighteveryday.
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it is important to find a balance between gaining and sharing
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