英语演讲稿初一

　　Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience,refinement is not humility, nor is largeness and justness of view faith.Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound, gives no command over thepassions, no influential motives, no vivifying principles.

　　Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but thegentleman. It is well to be a gentleman, it is well to have a cultivatedintellect, a delicate taste, a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind, a nobleand courteous bearing in the conduct of life--these are the connatural qualitiesof a large knowledge; they are the objects of a University; I am advocating, Ishall illustrate and insist upon them; but still, I repeat, they are noguarantee for sanctity or even for conscientiousness, they may attach to the manof the world, to the profligate, to the heartless, pleasant, alas, andattractive as he shows when decked out in them. Taken by themselves, they do butseem to be what they are not; they look like virtue at a distance, but they aredetected by close observers, and on the long run; and hence it is that they arepopularly accused of pretense and hypocrisy, not, I repeat, from their ownfault, but because their professors and their admirers persist in taking themfor what they are not, and are officious in arrogating for them a praise towhich they have no claim. Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor thevessel with a thread of silk, then may you hope with such keen and delicateinstruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants,the passion and the pride of man.