英语经典美文诵读100篇：002.home
[00:14.10]What makes a home? Love and sympathy and confidence.
[00:18.59]It is a place where kindly affections exist among all the members of the family.
[00:23.58]The parents take good care of their children, and the children are interested in the activities of their parents.
[00:29.85]Thus all of them are bound together by affection, and they find their home to be the cheeriest place in the world.
[00:36.95]A home without love is no more a home than a body without a soul is a man.
[00:42.36]Every civilized person is a social being. No one should live alone. A man may lead a successful and prosperous life,
[00:50.55]but prosperity alone can by no means insure happiness.
[00:54.77]Many great personages in the world history had deep affections for their homes.
[01:00.80]Your home may be poor and humble, but your duty lies there.
[01:05.12]You should try to make it cheerful and comfortable.
[01:08.15]The greater the difficulties, the richer will be your reward.
[01:12.17]A home is more than a family dwelling.
[01:14.90]It is a school in which people are trained for citizenship.
[01:18.81]A man will not render good services to his country if he can do nothing good for his home;
[01:24.25]for in proportion as he loves his home, will he love his country.
[01:28.51]The home is the birthplace of true patriotism.
[01:31.78]It is the secret of social welfare and national greatness. It is the basis and origin of civilization.
