Wherever you are, and whoever you may be, there is one thing in which you and I are just alike at this monment, and in all the moments of our existence. We are not at rest, we are on a journey. Our life is a movement, a tendency, a steady, ceaseless progress towards an unseen goal.
We are gaining something, or losing something, or losing something, everyday. Even when our position and our character seem to remain precisely the same, they are changing. For the mereadvance of time is a change. It is not the same thing to have a bare field in January and in July. The season makes the difference. The limitations that are childlike in the child are childish in the man.
Everything that we do is a step in one direction or another. Even the failure to do something is in itself a deed. it sets us forward or backward. the action of the negative pole of a magnetic needle is just as real as the action of the positive pole. To decline is to accept--the other alternative.
Are you nearer to your port today than you were yesterday? yes, you must be a little nearer to some port or other for since your ship was first launched upon the sea of life, you have never been still for a single moment, the sea is too deep, you could not find an anchorage if you would, there can be no pause until you come into port.
相关单词：precisely
precisely解释：adv.恰好，正好，精确地，细致地
precisely例句：
It's precisely that sort of slick sales-talk that I mistrust.我不相信的正是那种油腔滑调的推销宣传。
The man adjusted very precisely.那个人调得很准。
相关单词：childish
childish解释：adj.孩子的，孩子气的，幼稚的
childish例句：
The little girl spoke in a high childish voice.这个小女孩用尖尖的童声讲话。
We eventually ran out of patience with his childish behaviour.我们终于对他幼稚的行为忍无可忍。
相关单词：decline
decline解释：n.衰微，跌落，下降；vt.使降低，婉谢；vi.下降，衰落，偏斜
decline例句：
I must decline to show favour to any of the candidates.我必须拒绝偏袒任何一位候选人。
The birthrate is on the decline.出生率在下降。
