I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.

  • -- Elizabeth Gilbert 伊丽莎白·吉尔伯特

我应该坦率地说,因为我们现在都是这里的朋友——我最大的成功极有可能已经过去了。哦,天哪,真是个好主意!你知道,这种想法可能会导致一个人在早上九点就开始喝杜松子酒,而我不想去那里。

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I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

我想,与我们在乡村教会所取得的相对成功相比,我们在建设具有鲜明特色的优秀城镇教会方面的失败,一定经常给你们和我这样的人留下深刻的印象。

Noble failure atones for the impossibility of resisting progress successfully.

崇高的失败弥补了成功地抵制进步的不可能。