Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.

  • -- Samuel Eliot Morison 塞缪尔·艾略特·莫里森

然而,热情并不是这位历史学家失去平衡的借口。他应该提醒读者,结果既不是不可避免的,也不是预先注定的,而是受千变万化和机遇的影响。

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All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.

一切高尚的热情都要经过一个狂热的阶段,才会变得更加明智和宁静。

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

诚挚是理智所调和的热情。