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Credo

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away."

据说，一位东方君主曾经命令他的智者为他编造一个句子，让他随时出现在眼前，而且这个句子在任何时候和任何情况下都应该是正确和恰当的。他们对他说:“这一切都会过去的。”

Abraham Lincoln 亚伯拉罕·林肯

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy

耶和华阿，求你使我作你平安的器皿。哪里有仇恨，就让我播下爱的种子;哪里有伤害，哪里就宽恕;哪里有怀疑，哪里就有信仰;哪里有绝望，哪里就有希望;哪里有黑暗，哪里就有光明;哪里有悲伤，哪里就有快乐

Saint Francis of Assisi 阿西西的圣方济各

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

历史的全部教训用四句话概括: 神要谁灭亡，必先使谁因势力而发狂。 天网恢恢，疏而不漏。天网恢恢，疏而不漏。 蜜蜂使它抢夺的花受精。 当足够黑的时候，你可以看到星星。

Charles Austin Beard 比尔德

Nothing else matters much -- not wealth, nor learning, nor even health -- without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

没有这一天赋——保持生活热情的精神能力，没有什么比财富、学识甚至健康更重要的了。这是信条的信条，是所有重要信仰的最终沉淀和升华:你应该能够相信生活。

Harry Emerson Fosdick 美国牧师福斯迪克

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

不论你的生活如何卑贱，你要面对它生活，不要躲避它，更别用恶言咒骂它。视贫穷如园中之花而像圣人一样耕植它吧。不要麻烦自己去找新的东西，无论是衣服还是朋友。万物不变，是我们在变。卖掉你的衣服，保留你的思想。

Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗

Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

不要忘记一个人的生活的目的是改善人类自身,所以,他可能离开这个世界,在他伟大的球或小,做一些有利于他的生物和有点困难减少世界上的罪恶和悲伤。

William Ewart Gladstone 威廉·尤尔特·格莱斯顿

Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

多年前，我认识到我与所有生物都有亲缘关系，我下定决心，我不比地球上最卑贱的人强一点点。我当时说过，现在也说过，只要有下层阶级，我就在其中;只要有犯罪的成分，我也有;只要有一个灵魂在监狱里，我就没有自由。

Eugene V. Debs 尤金·V·德布斯

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