He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.

  • -- William Ellery Channing 钱宁

对现在的责任不忠的人,会把织布机上的一根线弄断,当你解开一生的织布时,你就会看到效果。

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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

他每天早上都在计划着一天的事务,并遵循着这个计划,他身上带着一根线,这条线将指引他穿过最忙碌生活的迷宫。

The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows.

我们这个城市的人民危在旦夕。时间已经不多了。我们能再活一个晚上吗?我们能依靠谁呢?只有上帝知道。

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

我们的责任是保存过去不得不为自己说的话,并为我们自己说什么将是真正的未来。

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

一种冷漠的无神论唯物主义是当今所谓物质哲学的倾向。

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

父爱是假装你最爱的礼物是系在绳子上的肥皂。

Duty cannot exist without faith.

责任不能没有信仰而存在。