Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.

  • -- Kathleen Norris 凯瑟琳·诺里斯

一次又一次地推销平庸,因为没有发现真正的价值。

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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

有些事情平庸是不能容忍的:诗歌、音乐、绘画、公众的雄辩。听一篇冷冰冰的演讲被人浮夸地大肆抨击,或者听一篇二流的诗歌被人说成全是拙劣诗人的夸夸其谈,这是多么折磨人啊!

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

每件大事都有一种神圣的恐怖。人们很容易赞美平庸和山丘;但是,无论什么东西太崇高,一个天才和一座山,一个集会和一个杰作,如果看得太近,都是令人震惊的。

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

有些话和最好的行动一样有价值,因为它们包含了所有这些话的萌芽。

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

有一种自我认识是值得拥有的,那就是了解自己的内心。