To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

  • -- Walter Horatio Pater 佩特

把一切事物和事物的原则都看成是不固定的模式或风尚,已越来越成为现代思想的倾向。

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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

万物都是无常的,惟有属灵的信心能改变万物,使万物充满光明。我虽然像一个不信的人,被赶出我的家乡,却找不着一个像我这样有信心的人。

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

当一个好人投身于奴隶制的倡导时,他必须至少在一段时间内,在他的新思想、学说和推理模式中,感到自己除了在家里之外,什么地方都是自在的。

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.

天才们的表达方式就像他们的灵魂一样各不相同,我们不可能说他们中的一些人的绘画和色彩比另一些人好或差。

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.

税收的趋势是创造一个不劳动的阶级,从劳动的人那里拿走劳动的产品,并把它给那些不劳动的人。

I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.

我似乎有一种自然的倾向,想要与他人分享我自己的观察和感受,而写作似乎是我最适合的方式。