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Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

  • -- William Godwin 威廉·葛德文

革命是激情的产物，而不是清醒和平静的理性的产物。

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He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

他得出这个结论，既不是靠平静的、合乎逻辑的推理，也不是靠闪光的、令人眼花缭乱的直觉，而是靠一种粗陋的、杂乱无章的、介于两者之间的过程，人们通常是通过这种过程来认识事物的。

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One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.

一个人的年龄应该是平静的，童年应该是好玩的。在生活的任何一端努力工作似乎都不合适。正午，太阳要晒伤，人要在太阳底下劳苦。但是早晨和晚上应该一样平静和愉快。

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Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.

因此，一个人找不到地方走过地球的宽度不是因为地球不平静，而是因为危险的旅行者的每一步通常在于文字。

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Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow.

勇气是很重要的。你的肠子是用来消化东西的。但是，是你的大脑告诉你该吞下什么，不该吞下什么。

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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.

我认为我们都经历过激情，这在任何意义上都是不合理的。

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My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

我的爱好一直是书籍、文学和教学。

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