The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

头脑永远不会满足于眼前的事物,而是总是脱离当下,沉浸在未来幸福的计划中……人类心灵的自然飞行不是从快乐到快乐,而是从希望到希望。

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Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

思想是一切事物的伟大杠杆;人的思想是最终回答人的目的的过程。

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

给他们想要的东西,他们当然会立刻惊慌失措。

I have pretty much made up my mind to do this.

我已经下定决心要做这件事了。