It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

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

人们有责任仅从他们的行为来判断他们。我们的才能使我们无法达到动机、性格和秘密的自我。我们从果实中称树为善,从行为中称人为善。

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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

行善总是具体的、特定的:抽象的、笼统的行善是恶棍、伪君子和献媚者的托辞,因为艺术和科学只能存在于具体的、特定的、特定的细节之中。

Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.

传记可以是所有形式中最中产阶级的,小人物的判断是对大人物的报复。

The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can speak for them.

我越喜欢这个角色,就越难犯错。我必须找到一个能代表他们说话的点。

I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.

我真的很努力让我的角色不成为刻板印象。我扮演一个染成金色头发的肥皂剧明星。

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

边界不是东或西,不是北或南,而是一个人面对事实的地方。

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.

她有良好的直觉,但判断错误。她会后悔的。