I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

  • -- Julia Ward Howe 茱莉亚·沃德·豪

我不知道为什么在回忆过去的幸福时,会有这样一种忧郁的感觉,只是我们担心,未来不会有什么比过去更光明。

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This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

这段话,以及我现在的心境,使我更愿意对那些凭感觉撒旦的飞镖而确知魔鬼存在的人说话。

Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.

复仇对情绪的抑制作用并不比盐水对口渴的抑制作用大。