Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

  • -- Zhuangzi 庄子

那些试图用仪式和音乐来阻碍人类的思想,影响慈善和奉献来满足人类思想的人已经失去了他们的本性。

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If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.

若罪的罪过甚大,除了耶稣的血以外,没有什么能叫罪得着满足。罪的污秽甚大,除耶稣的血以外,再没有别的东西能洗去它的污秽。罪的罪恶是何等的大,何等的可恶,何等的罪恶。

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.

人类在逆境中生存有着悠久的经验和优良的传统。但我们现在面临着一项我们几乎没有经验的任务,那就是繁荣昌盛。

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

一个人如果没有舒适的神话的帮助,就不能面对生活的危险,这人有一点软弱和可鄙。

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

试着去猜测(大众)观众想要什么,然后又试着去满足他们的需求,这通常不是得到好东西的好方法。

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

满意在于努力,而不在于获得,全力以赴就是彻底的胜利。

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

看哪,我不是在讲学,也不是在施舍,我施舍的时候,就是在施舍自己。

As long as I have want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

只要我想要,我就有活着的理由。满意是死亡。

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

太多的人放弃了慷慨,转而投身慈善事业。

But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.

但是一流头脑的工作从来就不是二流的。

It's Hard For Me To Make Up My Mind.

我很难下决心。