Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley 珀西·比西·雪莱

爱是免费的;承诺永远爱同一个女人并不比承诺相信同一个信条更荒谬;在这两种情况下，这样的誓言把我们排除在一切调查之外。

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The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.

揭示超自然现象的梦是神直接给我们的应许和信息:它们不过是他的天使，他的侍奉灵，当我们处于极大的困境时，他们通常会出现在我们面前。

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In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true.

在事实的审判中，通过口头证词，正确的调查不是看证词是否可能是假的，而是看是否有足够的可能性证明它是真的。

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True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

真正的科学从不投机;它使用假设作为研究的建议点，但它从不采用假设，好像它们是被证明的命题。

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The only promise of childhood is that it will end.

童年的唯一希望就是它会结束。

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