如果我休息，我就生锈 If I Rest, I Rust（1/1）

奥里森·马登 / Orison Marden

奥里森·马登（1848—1924），美国著名的成功学家。其创办的《成功》杂志在美国无人不晓，它通过创造性地传播成功学改变了无数美国人的命运。他被公认为美国成功学的奠基人和最伟大的励志导师。

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1.scription [skrip??n] n.铭文；碑文

2.otto [?t?u] n.箴言，格言，座右铭

3.endeavor [endev?] n.尝试

4.spasodic [sp?z?d?k] adj.**的，一阵阵的

5.vigce [v?d??l?ns] n.警觉；警惕；警戒

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Those who would atta the heights reached a by great n t keep their faculties polished by nstant e, so that they ay unlock the doors of knowledge, the gates that guard the entraotheprofessions,tosce,art, literature, agriculture—every departntof huan endeavor.

Indtry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievent.If Hugh Miller, after toilg all daya quarry, had devoted his evengs to rest and recreation he would never have bee a fao geologist.The celebrated atheati, Edund Stone, would never have published a atheatical diary, never have found the key to sce of atheatics, if he had given his spare onts to idleness.Had the little Stch d, Fergon, allowed the by bra to go to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside, stead of calcutg the position of the stars by a strg of beads, he would never have bee a fao astronor.

Labor vanquished all—not nstant, spasodic or ill-directed bor; but faithful, ug, daily effort toward a well-directed purpose.Jt as truly as eternal vigce is the price of liberty, so is eternal dtry the price of noble and endurg suess.