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塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯：自助论·摘录 218
塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯《自助论》· Self-Help · 领导
The school of Difficulty is the best school of moral discipline, for nations as for individuals. Indeed, the history of difficulty would be but a history of all the great and good things that have yet been accomplished by men. It is hard to say how much northern nations owe to their encounter with a comparatively rude and changeable climate and an originally sterile soil, which is one of the necessities of their condition,—involving a perennial struggle with difficulties such as the natives of sunnier climes know nothing of. And thus it may be, that though our finest products are exotic, the skill and industry which have been necessary to rear them, have issued in the production of a native growth of men not surpassed on the globe.
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定位：Excerpt 218 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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困难的学校是最好的道德训练学校，对个人如此，对民族也如此。人类一切伟大美好的成就，几乎都可以写成一部与困难斗争的历史。北方民族要应对寒冷多变的气候和贫瘠的土地，这种常年与困难搏斗的环境，反而锻炼了他们。虽然最精美的物产可能来自异域，但为了培育它们所需的技能和勤奋，却在本土造就了世界上毫不逊色的人才。这说明：恶劣的环境不是诅咒，而是磨刀石。与其抱怨条件差，不如把精力用在提升自己上，让困难逼出你的潜力。
上下文
斯迈尔斯以北方民族为例，说明艰苦环境对民族性格和能力的塑造作用。
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你所在的环境有哪些“不利条件”，其实可以转化为你的优势？
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