Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

  • -- Ezra Cornell 埃兹拉·康奈尔

懒惰之于人的心灵,犹如生锈之于铁。

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The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

应对衰老的方法是让自己的大脑忙碌起来,继续过着永无止境的生活。我一直很钦佩契诃夫,因为他在死于肺结核的时候盖了一栋新房子。

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

一定有人警告过你,不要让黄金时间白白溜走;但有些是金色的,只是因为我们让它们溜走了。

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

思想是一切事物的伟大杠杆;人的思想是最终回答人的目的的过程。

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

从世界上消除懒惰,丘比特的艺术很快就会消亡。

If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

如果某件事突然出现在我的脑海里,而且很容易,我就把它写下来。

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

人非圣贤,孰能无过;宽恕的,是神。