No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

  • -- William Ellery Channing 钱宁

在社会上没有任何权力,在你的处境中没有任何艰难困苦能使你在知识、权力、美德和影响力上感到沮丧、压抑,除非你自己同意。

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I wanted everything and thought it would be given to me if I asked for it. I think I was too weak to take any kind of hardship.

我想要一切,我想如果我开口要,一切都会给我。我想我太虚弱了,承受不了任何艰难困苦。