An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

  • -- Walter Savage Landor 兰德

天真无邪的人在无端的赞扬中感到最苦涩的责备。

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They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him.

他们说它伟大的责备国王再次把他给了什么,使他们不受他自己的好,也不是土地,也不是没收,也没有任何其他的好但是他们问它从他,否则他们收受贿赂别人为他得到它。

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

获得智慧有三种方法。第一种是反射,反射是最高的。第二个是限制,这是最简单的。第三是经验,这是最痛苦的。

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

我们赞美什么就增加什么。一切受造之物,都回应赞美,便都喜乐。

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

教育形成共同的思想。树枝弯了,树也斜了。

My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me.

我的思想告诉我要放弃,但我的心不让我。

Faint praise is akin to abuse.

微弱的表扬类似于辱骂。