Work and Pleasure
To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. It is no use starting late in life to say: I will take an interest in this or that. Such an attempt only aggravates the strain of mental effort. A man may acquire great knowledge of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yet hardly get any benefit or relief. It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do. Broadly speaking, human being may be divided into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death. It is no use offering the manual laborer, tired out with a hard weeks sweat and effort, the chance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon. It is no use inviting the politician or the professional or business man, who has been working or worrying about serious things for six days, to work or worry about trifling things at the weekend.
It may also be said that rational, industrious, useful human beings are divided into two classes: first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one. Of these the former are the majority. They have their compensations. The long hours in the office or the factory bring with them as their reward, not only the means of sustenance, but a keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms. But Fortunes favored children belong to the second class. Their life is a natural harmony. For them the working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays when they come are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vacation. Yet to both classes the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere, of a diversion of effort, is essential. Indeed, it may well be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.
My Motto
flower survived
The Shanghai World Expo(上海世博会)
An Accident
中英语作文--如何保护环境
My Hobbies
My Favourite subject(我最喜欢的学科)
Shanghai Museum
Traditional Teaching Method
乐的一天(a happy day)
Bikes or Cars
My Best Friend
ard to The Teacher
father is a gentle man
My School life
上海世博会
Self-introduction(自我介绍)
Health or Wealth
My Dream 我的梦想
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A cry for Nature Conservation
中英语作文--请假条
The Shanghai World Expo(上海世博会)
一轴四馆
My favorite movies
Summer Vacation
Don't Let Card Collecting Affect Your St
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Strengths and Weaknesses
如果我是世博会的志愿者
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英语课件 |
英语试题 |
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