Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

  • -- Adam Clarke 亚当·克拉克

很少有人能称得上具有无可比拟的优点。让我们看看他们从幼年到成年的成长过程,我们很快就会相信,他们所取得的成就是他们所追求的事业和所使用的手段的必然结果。

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As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

因此,进步仅仅意味着更大的权力、更多的利润、更高的生产率、更多的纸张繁荣,所有这些都可以转化为只与大小或规模有关的标准,而不是质量或卓越性。

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

即使社会要求男人和女人应该有特定的行为方式,也正是父母们不仅在孩子们说的话中,而且在他们的生活中,把这些方式教给孩子们。

I am happy for the wonderful men I have in my life, would be happy for a new love, and am happy either way. That is a kind of magical thinking that works

我为我生命中那些了不起的男人感到高兴,也为一段新的爱情感到高兴,无论如何我都感到高兴。这是一种神奇的想法

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

惟有我们信心的结果,就是叫我们的信心越发坚固。