晨讀英語(yǔ)美文100篇六級(jí)The Price of Perfection

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:] [00:02.43]Passage 62 The Price of Perfection [00:06.92]Gold may depreciate, stocks rise or fall, [00:12.06]and business values change so as to leave the market in panic, [00:17.53]but every man on the street or in the store knows that one value forever remains permanent, unvarying, [00:27.49]and that is character. [00:30.33]Every other asset may be swept away and success still achieved if this remain; [00:38.53]every other aid may be at its best [00:42.81]and failure only await him who lacks the wealth of character. [00:47.73]Character is that of which reputation is but the echo, often mistaken and misleading. [00:56.37]Character is the last, the ultimate, value of life. [01:01.63]It is the trend of the whole being towards the best. [01:05.67]It is the passion and power that holds one true despite all persuasion. [01:12.56]It is the one thing worth having, because upon it all other values depend. [01:20.12]This asset comes not to a man by accident. [01:24.71]He who is rich in character, [01:27.67]whose success in many ways is built upon his resources in this way, [01:34.23]does not just simply happen to be good, true, and square. [01:40.90]There is a price to character; [01:43.96]it costs more than any other thing, for it is worth more than all other things. [01:51.08]Essentially it never is inherited, [01:54.68]but always acquired by processes often slow and toilsome and at great price. [02:02.56]If you would be perfect you must pay the price of perfection. [02:08.25]Unless the passion of life is this perfection it never will be your possession. [02:14.82]Dreams of ideal goodness only waste the hours in which it might have been achieved. [02:21.83]No man ever finds character in his sleep. [02:26.19]The education of the heart is a thing even more definite than the education of the head. [02:33.64]The school of character has an infinite variety of courses and an unending curriculum. [02:41.52]This does not mean that this prize of eternity falls [02:47.42]only to those who devote themselves wholly to self-culture, [02:52.02]to the salvation of their own souls. [02:55.52]The best lives have thought little of themselves, [03:00.00]but they have lived for the ends of the soul, to help men to better living, [03:06.02]to save them from the things that blight and damn the soul. [03:10.40]Like the Leader of men they have found the life unending by laying down their lives, [03:17.84]paying the full price, selling all in order that right and truth and honour and purity, [03:25.83]love and kindness and justice might remain to man.

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