One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

  • -- Ian McEwan 伊恩·麦克尤恩

一个人必须有悲观的勇气。

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When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

当我们尽了最大的努力,作为一个团结的民族,我们能够以冷静的勇气和信心面对可能发生的一切,相信这个古老的国家将继续存在下去。

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

当一扇门关上时,另一扇门就会打开;但是我们常常对那扇关上的门望得那么久,那么遗憾,以致于我们没有看到那扇为我们打开的门。

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

如果世界上只有欢乐,我们就永远学不会勇敢和耐心。

Pessimist: one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

悲观主义者:当他可以从两种罪恶中选择时,他选择了两者。