Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

-- Samuel Richardson 塞缪尔·理查森

谦卑是一种优雅，它在高尚的环境中闪耀光芒，但在卑微的环境中却无法同样闪耀光芒，因为一个人在卑微的环境中可能已经过于谦卑了。

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I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

我抗议说，如果某个大国愿意让我永远思考什么是真的，做什么是对的，条件是把我变成一种时钟，每天早上在我起床之前就起床，那么我就应该立刻结束这个提议。

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Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

经济萧条不能通过立法行动或行政声明来治愈。经济创伤必须通过经济主体的细胞- -生产者和消费者本身- -的行动来愈合。

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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

对我来说，教育是学生灵魂深处的一种引导。对麦凯小姐来说，这是对一些不存在的东西的投入，而这不是我所说的教育。我称之为入侵。

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But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

但是，也许我们其他人可以在科学鉴赏、科学奇迹、科学思维方式和科学思想史等方面单独上课，而不是在实验室里体验。

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Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.

无论他们的罪行的性质如何或可能发生的任何改造，这些前重罪犯都不能参加这个伟大国家的决策进程。

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But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things.

但是，再一次，我不得不停下来，因为有太多的痛苦或太多的麻烦。退休后，我还做了一次肘部手术，只是为了能做一些正常的事情。

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Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

压迫是一群人对另一群人所做的事，特别是因为后者有一个共同的威胁特征。

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Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

欧洲传统中的大多数绘画都是画面具。现代艺术拒绝了这一切。我们的主题是面具背后的人。

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I hope that my story, I hope that my life is... an encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and blessed.

我希望我的故事，我希望我的生活是…对人们的鼓励，尤其是在布鲁克林。我感到谦卑和幸福。

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The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

爱是精神的最高证明。爱是永恒的东西，它已经在地球上真正拥有了。

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A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

一个人不能爱一棵修剪过的植物，那么他要么做得不好，要么缺乏感情。

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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

真正的恐惧是某天早上醒来发现你的高中班级正在管理这个国家。

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I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.

我知道如果我不巡演，人们会忘记我的记录，而你的记录失败的风险很大。

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Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

艺术是大自然的右手。后者只给了我们生命，前者造就了我们人类。

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The great thing about knowing you're wrong is the moment you realize it, you're right.

知道自己错了最好的事情就是当你意识到你是对的时候。

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Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

你知不知道，你的晚年也会以同样的优雅、力量和魅力降临?

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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

无论春夏之美，都没有我在一张秋色的脸上所见过的那种优雅。

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It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

也许交替扮演受害者和刽子手会很好。

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

优雅而快乐地变老是一种罕见而又困难的成就。

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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

没有自由的秩序和没有秩序的自由同样具有破坏性。

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I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

我不能给你写一个关于政治的字，因为你是一个女人。

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Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing.

因为如果我不知道我的台词，我真的不知道我在做什么。

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Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

很多人想要虔诚，但没有人想要谦卑。

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The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

太阳也照射到污水坑里，没有被污染。

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Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

不要站在天使的一边，这太卑鄙了。

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All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

所有可以想象的未来并非都是同样可能的。

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Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

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