We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

  • -- Harriet Martineau 马蒂诺

我们不相信永生,因为我们可以证明它,但我们试图证明它,因为我们不能不相信它。

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Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.

有些人把散文家的部分写得很好,因而在这一过程中获得了不朽的成就;但是我们没有很多这样的书,它们在我们的书架上只占一个可怜的数字。遗憾的是,事情竟如此发展,因为一位优秀的散文家是你能想象到的最愉快的伴侣。

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

这很容易被误解,它不是关于对逆境的热爱,而是关于知道一种力量和一种信念,这种力量和信念是如此之大,以致于逆境,无论其反面表现如何,几乎都不存在。

Faith is hard to achieve, easy to lose.

信念难实现,容易失去。