Never be so brief as to become obscure.

-- Hosea Ballou 马士

永远不要过于简短以至于变得晦涩难懂。

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With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.

有了这种体验的壮丽感和它可怕的简练感，把我们所有的一切都集中到一个绝望的努力去看和触摸，我们将几乎没有时间对我们所看到和触摸的事物做出理论。

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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

在这个时代，真理是如此模糊，谎言是如此根深蒂固，以至于，除非我们热爱真理，否则我们无法知道它。

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In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

在他完全无能为力的状态下，个人把他剩下的时间看作是一个短暂的缓刑。

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In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

为了简洁，我变得晦涩难懂。

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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

简洁是雄辩的一大魅力。

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