Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

不完美总是缠着一个人,如果他们等着被彻底刷掉,他们就会永远在轴上旋转,不会前进。

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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

许多政治家习惯于把它作为一个不言自明的命题,即在人们能够充分利用他们的自由之前,没有人应该是自由的。这句格言就像古老故事里的傻瓜,他决定在学会游泳之前不下水。

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

如果一个人只爱一个人,对所有的人都漠不关心,那么他的爱就不是爱,而是一种共生的依恋,或者是一种放大了的利己主义。

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.

有些人提高了他们所处的年龄,直到所有的人在那一生中都走在更高的地方。

I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.

我不否认。我是个整洁的人,这是毫无疑问的。但我不会沉迷其中。