Stones on other mountains are hard, so jade can be polished. It is not only a metaphor that talents from other countries can serve their own country, but also a metaphor that can help them correct their shortcomings or opinions.
Decadence has no beginning, and fresh talents have an end. From The Book of Songs: "Decadence has no beginning, but rarely has an end."
Nothing can't have a good start, but unfortunately, few people can have a good ending. Everything has a beginning, but it rarely ends. Often used to persuade people to start well and finish well.
Judging from the jurisdiction of The Book of Songs Xiaoya Che, this is a very difficult thing to do: "The mountains are rising and the scenery is stopping."
Character and talent are like a mountain, which makes people look up and take his behavior as the code of conduct involuntarily.
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Other famous sentences about reading.
Diligence is good at diligence, but not good at playing. This sentence comes from Han Yu, a writer in the Tang Dynasty.
Learning is proficient because of diligence, but it can be abandoned in games and play.
There is also a sentence below this sentence, "What you do is destroyed by thinking", which means that things succeed because of repeated thinking, but they can be destroyed by the randomness without thinking (more importantly, it should be a small matter, which is reflected by the thought of arrogance and extravagance, leading to deviation from the original intention and the opposite direction).
Reading breaks thousands of volumes, and writing is like a god. From the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu's "Twenty-two Rhymes for Wei": "Reading is broken, writing is like a god."
It is handy to describe reading widely, reading books thoroughly, and then putting them into practice.