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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

有些美德只出现在苦难中，而另一些美德只出现在顺境中。

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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

如果我们想避免侮辱，我们必须能够击退它;如果我们希望确保和平，这是我们日益繁荣的最有力工具之一，我们必须知道，我们随时准备着战争。

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Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

不要倒在你想要的安慰上，倒在你所拥有的怜悯上。宁可看神使你受苦的结局，也不要看你受苦难的程度。

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Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

虽然所有的痛苦本身都是邪恶的，但它们对我们是有益的，因为它们发现了我们的疾病，并帮助我们治愈。

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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

幸福不是美德的奖赏，而是美德本身。

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There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

没有通往繁荣的路，繁荣本身就是一条路。

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

有预谋的美德没有多大价值。

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