Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

  • -- William Penn 威廉·佩恩

武力可以使人成为伪君子,但决不能使人改变信仰。

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The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

把经验转换成一组彼此之间有语法关系的单词的冲动是我生命中最基本的、持续的冲动。

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

每当我们谈到自己的时候,我们似乎是多么的伪君子啊!我们的话语听起来如此谦卑,而我们的心却如此骄傲。

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

愤怒会让你变得更渺小,而宽恕会迫使你超越过去。

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

如果诗人追求道德目标,他的诗歌力量就会减弱。