Ancient and modern virtuous articles (reading chapters)
If you want to know the affairs of the world, you must read ancient and modern books. Once you learn it, you can apply it everywhere, and the optics don’t have to be equal to zero. If you can't, learn, if you don't know, ask; reading is all about your own mind, and the teacher is just a guide.
A good song never tires of being sung a hundred times, and a good book never tires of being read a hundred times. When you read, you can doubt, and when you doubt, you can learn something. Reading silently facilitates thinking, and reading aloud facilitates memory. Reading a good book for the first time is like finding a good friend; reading a good book again is like meeting an old friend. He who pays attention to everything is knowledgeable, and among three people walking together, there is my teacher.
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Chinese Virtuous Essays (Encouraging Learning)
If a jade is not polished, it will not become a tool; if a person does not learn, it will not become a tool. Ignorant of justice. If you have fields and don’t cultivate them, your barns will be empty; if you have books and don’t read them, your descendants will be foolish. The warehouses are empty because of the lack of time, and the descendants are ignorant because of the lack of etiquette and righteousness. It is the fault of an adopted son not to teach his father, and it is the fault of a teacher who is not strict in his discipline. The father's teachings were strict and there was nothing wrong with his son's knowledge. Although there are delicacies, if you don't eat them, you don't know their purpose; although there are great ways, you don't learn them and don't know their goodness. It is better to accumulate tens of millions of wealth than to have little skills; it is better to send your children to study than to have thousands of hectares of fertile land. Giving money to your children is only for temporary needs; passing on virtues and talents to your children can benefit you throughout your life. If a man loses education, he will grow up to be naughty; if a woman loses education, she will grow up to be careless. If you are from a poor family, you should not miss out on school, and you should teach your children to make early determination; if you are from a rich family, you should not neglect their studies, and you must prevent extravagance from leading to spoiled children. If a poor person studies hard, he can stand up; if a rich person studies hard, he can be glorious. Only if you see scholars are prominent, but if you don't see scholars, there will be no success. Although it is not possible for everyone to become a dragon or a phoenix, it requires everyone to work hard to become self-reliant. Scholars are like grain and rice; unlearners are like wormwood and grass. If he is a good scholar, the son of a common man will be a public minister; if he is not a scholar, the son of a public minister will be a common man.
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The most rational and virtuous essay (reading)
The only way to think better is to read
p>The greatest happiness is reading, and the most important thing is teaching children. It is better to possess tens of millions of talents than to have little skills; it is better to send your children to study than to have thousands of hectares of fertile land. If a man loses his education, he will grow up to be stubborn and stupid; if a woman loses her education, she will grow up to be vulgar. If you have a job but don't do it, your pocket will be empty; if you have books but don't read, your descendants will be foolish.
If a bird wants to fly high, it first flaps its wings; if a person wants to make progress, he first reads. Reading makes people enriched, thinking makes people profound, and talking makes people sober. Reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people intelligent, calculation makes people precise, philosophy makes people profound, ethics makes people cultivated, and logic and rhetoric make people eloquent. Reading silently facilitates thinking, and reading aloud facilitates memory.
To master books, don’t be mastered by books; to read to live, don’t live to read. The sunrise illuminates the earth, and reading clears your mind. Whatever you seek from reading, you will gain general knowledge. Life without books is like the sun without light; wisdom without books is like a bird without wings. The influence of people is short and weak, but the influence of books is broad and strong.
There is poetry and calligraphy in the belly, and the spirit comes from China. After reading thousands of volumes, one can understand the spirit. Reading must be done with intention, a word is worth a thousand pieces of gold. Young people don't know how to study hard, and when they are old they will regret that they were late in studying. The poor need to study more, and the rich should not forget about farming. If a gentleman does not learn, he will not be able to achieve his virtues; if a fine jade is not polished, he will not be able to develop his tools.
Read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles. To establish oneself, one should first establish one's studies, and to establish one's studies, one should take reading as the foundation. I realized that I was good at studying today, and regretted that I was a coward in the world. If you don't learn it when you're young, you'll be a fool; if you don't learn it when you grow up, you'll be a lazy dragon. When you think about it, you should think about correcting your mistakes. Why not stop reading when you have time. Everything in the world is of low quality, but the only way to think is high is reading.