Scarborough Fair: 2006年5月

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5月23日

Our Family Creed

They point the way to usefulness and happiness in life, to courage and peace in death. Let me state them:

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living and that economy is a prime requisite of a sound financial structure, whether in goverment, business or personal affairs.

I believe that truth and justice are fundamental to an enduring social order.

I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man's word should be as good as his bond, that character-notwealth or power or position-is of supreme worth.

I believe that the rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind and that only in the purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness consumed and the greatness of the human soul set free.

I believe in an all-wise and all-loving God, named by whatever name, and that the individual's highest fulfillment, greatest happiness and widest usefulness are to be found in living in harmony with his will.

I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world; that it alone can overcome hate; that right can and will triumph over might.

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5月16日

IF

If you can keep your head when all about you .Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too;

Or, being lied about, doun't deal in lies,   Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master;

If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim ;

If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools

Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss

And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your lose;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you   Except the will which says to them:" Hold on !"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch;

If neither foes nor loving froends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much,

If you can fill the unforging minute     With sixty seconds' worth of dostance run--

Yours is the earth and everything that's in it    And--which is more--you'll be a man, my son !!

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