Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

每个人都必须在真理和休息之间做出选择。它不可能两者兼得。

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In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other.

在密西西比河两岸及其众多支流的天然地带和人工运河开凿的地方,我看到了几段笔直的树桩,它们的根连在一起,埋在不同高度的地层中,一个接一个。

It is funny the things that run through your mind when you're sitting in your underpants in front of a pair of strangers.

有趣的是,当你穿着内裤坐在一对陌生人面前的时候,你的脑海中会浮现出一些事情。

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

我全身心地投入到我的工作中,在这个过程中我失去了理智。

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

每一个慈善行为都是通往天堂的垫脚石。

The sheep has no choice when in the jaws of the wolf.

羊在狼的嘴里别无选择。

Reason is also choice.

理性也是一种选择。