Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

  • -- William Cowper 威廉·考珀

仪式引导着她的偏执,准备为毫无价值的阴影而战。然而,永恒的事物所依赖的真理却很难找到一个朋友。

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So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.

这样,属灵的忧愁,虽然有几分忧愁的影儿,但至少在这慈惠的心肠上,是缺乏的。

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

爱情是陷阱。当它出现时,我们看到的只是它的光,而不是它的影子。

I don't slam doors in people's faces, and I'm not a bigot.

我不会当着别人的面摔门,我也不是偏执狂。