A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
把好句子，读进生活里。
一句英文，一种视角。慢慢读，总有一句与你共鸣。
In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle -- this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.
天下莫柔弱于水，而攻坚强者莫之能胜，以其无以易之。弱之胜强，柔之胜刚；天下莫不知，莫能行。
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。
Find someone who knows you're not perfect but treats you as if you are.
找一个人，他知道你并不完美，却把你当完美来对待。
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
也许任何人能为这个国家和人类提供的最大的社会服务就是养育一个家庭。
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
教育的最大困难是从思想中获得经验。
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
如果把所有的经济学家首尾相连，他们永远也不会得出结论。
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
一个人不是天生的，而是变成了一个女人。
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
一个领导者最重要的品质就是被认可。所有健康状况受到质疑的领导人都明显缺乏实权。
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
我转念一想，见日光之下，快跑的未必得胜，强壮的未必争战，智慧的未必得粮食，聪明的未必得赀财，灵巧的未必得恩惠。但是时间和机会总是发生在他们身上。
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
下定决心，果断行动，承担后果。在这个世界上犹豫不决是做不到任何好事的。
There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.
没有什么伟大的运动是让子弹朝各个方向飞来飞去，但我发现当子弹在他们中间时，他们的恐惧要比预期中的少。
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
我们生来软弱，我们需要力量;无助，我们需要帮助;傻瓜，我们需要理性。我们在出生时所缺少的，在进入人类的领地时所需要的，就是教育的恩赐。