Poem - It tossed and tossed By Emily Dickinson
It tossed and tossed:
It tossed and tossed,—
A little brig I knew,—
O’ertook by blast,
It spun and spun,
And groped delirious, for morn.
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Quotes - Xenocrates
Xenocrates:
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Quotes - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none.
Quotes - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:
The only things you learn are the things you tame.
Vocabulary - My Ass
My Ass:
A way of expressing disbelief.
Poor bird, my ass. He’s foxy bastard. He thinks he’s a Jew - The Wall by Jean Paul Sartre
Vocabulary - Satyr
Satyr:
A god in ancient Greek stories, represented as half human and half goat.
Aesop's Fables - The Man and the Satyr
The Man and the Satyr:
A Man had lost his way in a wood one bitter winter’s night. As he was roaming about, a Satyr came up to him, and finding that he had lost his way, promised to give him a lodging for the night, and guide him out of the forest in the morning. As he went along to the Satyr’s cell, the Man raised both his hands to his mouth and kept on blowing at them. ‘What do you do that for?’ said the Satyr.
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Quotes - Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson:
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Aesop's Fables - The Crow and the Pitcher
The Crow and the Pitcher:
A Crow, half-dead with thirst, came upon a Pitcher which had once been full of water; but when the Crow put its beak into the mouth of the Pitcher he found that only very little water was left in it, and that he could not reach far enough down to get at it. He tried, and he tried, but at last had to give up in despair. Then a thought came to him, and he took a pebble and dropped it into the Pitcher.
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Vocabulary - Vice
Vice:
A bad or immoral quality in a person, or bad or immoral behavior.
Jealousy is a vice.
Smoking is one of his few vices.
Persian: پلیدی، هرزی، بدسرشتی، عیب، نقص
Aesop's Fables - Avaricious and Envious
Avaricious and Envious:
Two neighbours came before Jupiter and prayed him to grant their hearts’ desire. Now the one was full of avarice, and the other eaten up with envy. So to punish them both, Jupiter granted that each might have whatever he wished for himself, but only on condition that his neighbour had twice as much. The Avaricious man prayed to have a room full of gold. No sooner said than done; but all his joy was turned to grief when he found that...
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Poem - I should have been too glad, I see By Emily Dickinson
I should have been too glad, I see:
I should have been too glad, I see,
Too lifted for the scant degree
Of life’s penurious round;
My little circuit would have shamed
This new circumference, have blamed 5
The homelier time behind.
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Vocabulary - Gale
Gale:
A very strong wind.
A howling gale and torrential rain lashed the windows.
The fence was blown down in the gale last night.
The ship sank in the gale.
Persian: تند باد
Vocabulary - Espy
Espy:
To suddenly see sb or sth; spy.
Persian: متوجه شدن، دیدن
Quotes - Ryszard Kapuściński
Ryszard Kapuściński:
Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.
Aesop's Fables - The Fisher and the Little Fish
The Fisher and the Little Fish:
It happened that a Fisher, after fishing all day, caught only a little fish. ‘Pray, let me go, master,’ said the Fish. ‘I am much too small for your eating just now. If you put me back into the river I shall soon grow, then you can make a fine meal off me.’
‘Nay, nay, my little Fish,’ said the Fisher, ‘I have you now. I may not catch you hereafter.’
A little thing in hand is worth more than a great thing in prospect.
Vocabulary - Gent
Gent:
Short form of gentleman.
See you gents around.
I’ve always prided myself on being a perfect gent.
Quotes - Boy Scouts of America
Boy Scouts of America:
On my honor, I will do my best To do my duty To God and my country.
The African-American Civil Rights Movement
The African-American Civil Rights Movement:
The African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) refers to the social movements in the United States aimed at outlawing racial discrimination against black Americans and restoring voting rights to them. This article covers the phase of the movement between 1955 and 1968, particularly in the South. The emergence of the Black Power Movement, which lasted roughly from 1966 to 1975, enlarged the aims of the Civil Rights Movement to include racial dignity, economic and political self-sufficiency, and freedom from oppression by white Americans.
Poem - A poor torn heart, a tattered heart By Emily Dickinson
A poor torn heart, a tattered heart:
A poor torn heart, a tattered heart,
That sat it down to rest,
Nor noticed that the ebbing day
Flowed silver to the west,
Nor noticed night did soft descend 5
Nor constellation burn,
Intent upon the vision
Of latitudes unknown.
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Aesop's Fables - The Four Oxen and the Lion
The Four Oxen and the Lion:
A Lion used to prowl about a field in which Four Oxen used to dwell. Many a time he tried to attack them; but whenever he came near they turned their tails to one another, so that whichever way he approached them he was met by the horns of one of them. At last, however, they fell a-quarrelling among themselves, and each went off to pasture alone in a separate corner of the field. Then the Lion attacked them one by one and soon made an end of all four.
United we stand, divided we fall.
Aesop's Fables - The Two Pots
The Two Pots:
Two Pots had been left on the bank of a river, one of brass, and one of earthenware. When the tide rose they both floated off down the stream. Now the earthenware pot tried its best to keep aloof from the brass one, which cried out: ‘Fear nothing, friend, I will not strike you.’
‘But I may come in contact with you,’ said the other, ‘if I come too close; and whether I hit you, or you hit me, I shall suffer for it.’
The strong and the weak cannot keep company.
Quotes - Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams:
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
William Shakespeare Sonnet 002
William Shakespeare Sonnet 002:
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,
Thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now,
Will be a totter'd weed of small worth held:
Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies,
Where all the treasure of thy lusty days;
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Aesop's Fables - The Two Fellows and the Bear
The Two Fellows and the Bear:
Two Fellows were travelling together through a wood, when a Bear rushed out upon them. One of the travellers happened to be in front, and he seized hold of the branch of a tree, and hid himself among the leaves. The other, seeing no help for it, threw himself flat down upon the ground, with his face in the dust. The Bear, coming up to him, put his muzzle close to his ear, and sniffed and sniffed. But at last with a growl he shook his head and slouched off, for bears will not touch dead meat. Then the fellow in the tree came down to his comrade, and, laughing, said ‘What was it that Master Bruin whispered to you?’
‘He told me,’ said the other,
‘Never trust a friend who deserts you at a pinch.’
Vocabulary - Cudgel
Cudgel:
A short thick stick used as a weapon; or to beat with a cudgel.
Persian: چماق، چنبه، چماق زدن، با چوبدستی زدن
Vocabulary - Bray
Bray:
if a donkey brays, it makes a loud sound.
Persian: عرعر کردن
Aesop's Fables - The Ass in the Lion’s Skin
The Ass in the Lion’s Skin:
An Ass once found a Lion’s skin which the hunters had left out in the sun to dry. He put it on and went towards his native village. All fled at his approach, both men and animals, and he was a proud Ass that day. In his delight he lifted up his voice and brayed, but then every one knew him, and his owner came up and gave him a sound cudgelling for the fright he had caused. And shortly afterwards a Fox came up to him and said: ‘Ah, I knew you by your voice.’
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.
Vocabulary - Precept
Precept:
A rule on which a way of thinking or behaving is based.
Basic moral precepts.
Accordingly, this book shines a spotlight on the Centralism precepts, and on the practices they yield.
He took words and ideas seriously and felt that having accepted a moral precept he had to live it.
Persian: اصل، قاعده
Aesop's Fables - The Two Crabs
The Two Crabs:
One fine day two Crabs came out from their home to take a stroll on the sand. ‘Child,’ said the mother, ‘you are walking very ungracefully. You should accustom yourself, to walking straight forward without twisting from side to side.’
‘Pray, mother,’ said the young one, ‘do but set the example yourself, and I will follow you.’
Example is the best precept.