Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

读书之于心灵,犹如运动之于身体。

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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

当你掌握了数字,你就不会再读数字了,就像你读书时读单词一样,你也不会再读意义了。

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

正确理解和运用有价值的格言需要天才;一种至关重要的占用心智的活动,与最初创造它的人密切相关。

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

我不能让宇宙服从我。我不能让别人顺从我自己的想法。我不能叫我自己的身体顺服我。

Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge.

因此,当意识认识到自己并爱自己时,仍然有一个三位一体,那就是意识、爱和知识。

I enjoy sharing my books as I do my friends, asking only that you treat them well and see them safely home.

我和我的朋友一样喜欢分享我的书,只要求你好好对待他们,并把他们安全地送回家。

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

我所受的教育是一种自由,我可以不加选择地阅读,而且一直睁大眼睛。

Our body always tells us what it wants and needs—the question is whether we are listening.

我们的身体总是告诉我们它想要什么和需要什么——问题是我们是否在倾听。

A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.

没有书的房子一定很凄凉。更可悲的是,一个没有人的书屋。

There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.

有些事情你的大脑一直在逃避你。

A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body.

拳击手必须锻炼和发展身体的每一个部位。