Daily Quote Either write thing worth reading, or do things worth writing. (Benjamin Franklin) Poem of the Day Shall earth no more inspire thee By Emily Brontë Beauty of Words 落叶 王蒙

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Dec 04

Daily Quote The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it. (Voltaire) Poem of the Day Fragmentary Blue By Robert Frost Beauty of Words A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens

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Dec 02

Daily Quote An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus) Poem of the Day The Storm Mary Oliver Beauty of Words 骂人的艺术（节选） 梁实秋

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Nov 30

Daily Quote Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. (Horace) Poem of the Day 送柴侍御 王昌龄 Beauty of Words 印度洋上的秋思 徐志摩

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Nov 29

Daily Quote Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. (Paulo Coelho) Poem of the Day I Am A Creature Giuseppe Ungaretti Beauty of Words Bleak House Charles Dickens

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Nov 27

Daily Quote It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. (Lewis Carroll) Poem of the Day To a Cat Jorge Luis Borges Beauty of Words Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth

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Nov 25

Daily Quote We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side. (James Baldwin) Poem of the Day 宫词 白居易 Beauty of Words The Widow and Her Son Washington Irving

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Nov 23

Daily Quote A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. (George Bernard Shaw) Poem of the Day Why Flowers Change Colour Robert Herrick Beauty of Words Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf

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Nov 22

Daily Quote There is only one success--- to be able to spend your life in your own way. (Christopher Morley) Poem of the Day 送柴侍御 王昌龄 Beauty of Words The Flying Trunk (2) Hans Christian Andersen

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Nov 20

Daily Quote Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. (Horace) 勇于开始！拖延正途者，犹如农夫呆立河畔，待川流尽而后渡。（贺拉斯） Poem of the Day 秋日偶成 程颢 Beauty of Words The Flying Trunk (1) Hans Christian Andersen

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Nov 18

Daily Quote Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. (Agatha Christie) Poem of the Day 明月皎夜光 Beauty of Words I Find Plenty of News in Old Books Danny Heitman

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Nov 16

Daily Quote Destiny is like a dust storm; you have nowhere to hide. (Haruki Murakami) Poem of the Day Why Flowers Change Colour Robert Herrick Beauty of Words Autumnal Tints by Henry David Thoreau

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Nov 15

Daily Quote 生命就是且缓一口气再讲，明天再说明天的。（老舍） Poem of the Day Three Shadows Dante Gabriel Rossetti Beauty of Words On Pleasure Epicurus

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Nov 13

Daily Quote A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. (George Bernard Shaw) Poem of the Day 秋思 陆游 Beauty of Words 怒 梁实秋

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Nov 11

Daily Quote 生命的意义在于付出，在于给予，而不是在于接受，也不是在于索取。（巴金） Poem of the Day 秋天 顾城 Beauty of Words Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf

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Nov 09

Daily Quote Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower, we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind – the beauty of leaves in their ever-changing colors. (William Wordsworth) Poem of the Day Chrysanthemums ——planted for Tao Yuan Ming, who likes mum Robert Bly Beauty of Words The Book Thief Markus Zusak

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Nov 08

Daily Quote The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. (Albert Einstein) Poem of the Day Why Flowers Change Colour Robert Herrick Beauty of Words 印度洋上的秋思 徐志摩

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Nov 06

Daily Quote Destiny is like a dust storm; you have nowhere to hide. (Haruki Murakami) Poem of the Day Gift Czesław Miłosz Beauty of Words Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie

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Nov 04

Daily Quote You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well. (C. S. Lewis) Poem of the Day 瑶池 李商隐 Beauty of Words Charlotte’s Web (Chapter 2) E. B. White

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Nov 02

Daily Quote It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. (Arthur Schopenhauer) Poem of the Day Happiness Herman Hesse Beauty of Words 竹影 丰子恺

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Nov 01

Daily Quote I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. (Anne Frank) Poem of the Day 青溪 王维 Beauty of Words Modern Fiction Virginia Woolf

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Oct 30

Daily Quote There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) Poem of the Day Chrysanthemums ——planted for Tao Yuan Ming, who likes mum Robert Bly Beauty of Words The Lady of the Camellias Alexandre Dumas, fils

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Oct 28

Daily Quote Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower, we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind – the beauty of leaves in their ever-changing colors. (William Wordsworth) Poem of the Day Fall, Leaves, Fall Emily Jane Bronte Beauty of Words Autumnal Tints by Henry David Thoreau

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Oct 26

Daily Quote Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. (Aristotle) Poem of the Day The Last Bargain By Rabindranath Tagore Beauty of Words 鼎湖山听泉 谢大光

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Oct 25

Daily Quote It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. (Arthur Schopenhauer) Poem of the Day The Sound of Trees Robert Frost Beauty of Words The Book Thief Markus Zusak

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Oct 23

Daily Quote If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, my dreams presage some joyful news at hand. (William Shakespeare) Poem of the Day Happiness Herman Hesse Beauty of Words 箱子岩（节选） 沈从文（戴乃迭 译）

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Oct 21

Daily Quote There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see. (Leonardo da Vinci) Poem of the Day In the Fog Herman Hesse Beauty of Words 竹影 丰子恺

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Oct 19

Daily Quote Many of the miseries of life are due to our sacrificing the future for the present; the happiness of years that are to come, for the satisfaction of the moment. (John Lubbock) Poem of the Day 白头吟 卓文君 Beauty of Words Eugene O'Neil to His Son

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Oct 18

Daily Quote It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly. (Claude Monet) Poem of the Day The Birch Tree Sergei Yesenin Beauty of Words 将离 叶圣陶

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Oct 16

Daily Quote The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. (Socrates) Poem of the Day The Other Side of a Mirror by Mary Coleridge Beauty of Words Dorothy Osborne’s Letters Virginia Woolf

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Oct 14