It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

  • -- William Ellery Channing 钱宁

对我来说,保持纯洁的良心远比指导任何伟大的目标重要。

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Our goal of poverty eradication and of inclusive growth that embraces the disadvantaged and marginalized sections of society can be achieved when our actions are guided by a social conscience and are not devoid of sensitivity.

我们的目标是消除贫困,实现包容社会弱势群体和边缘化群体的包容性增长,前提是我们的行动要以社会良知为导向,不缺乏敏感性。

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

一个作家应该得到尽可能多的教育,但仅仅上学是不够的;如果是这样,那么所有拥有博士学位的人都会受到作家的启发。

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

动物所处的时代比人类聪明;但是他们的智慧局限于一些细节,而且局限在一个非常狭窄的范围内。

The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes.

圣灵的目的是教导我们如何上天堂,而不是天堂如何去。

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

你的良心是衡量你的自私是否诚实的尺度。仔细听。

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

独自一人!独自一人!没有烽火台,无论远近!没有海图,没有罗盘,没有锚!