Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

  • -- Edward Young 爱德华·杨格

我们的诞生不过是死亡的开始,正如蜡烛一旦着了火就会熄灭。

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Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

无论谁生了调皮的孩子,他的精神和心灵总是充满无尽的悲伤。

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

我们平时不称赞别人,而是为了被别人表扬自己。

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

我们不是从自己身上学得比现在更好。

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

生与死很容易。生活是艰辛的。