A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
卓越
Excellence
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
伟大的心灵总是会遭到平庸心智的激烈反对。如果一个人不是不加思索地屈从于遗传的偏见，而是诚实而勇敢地运用他的智慧，那么后者就无法理解这一点。
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
爱国主义最大的吸引力之一——它满足了我们最坏的愿望。以我们国家的名义，我们可以间接地欺凌和欺骗。欺侮和欺骗，更重要的是，我们觉得自己是非常善良的。
If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
如果一个人有好玉米、好木头、好木板、好猪可以卖，或者比任何人都能做得更好的椅子、刀子、坩埚或教堂的器官，你会发现一条通往他家的宽阔的、不易走的路，尽管这条路是在树林里。
As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.
因此，进步仅仅意味着更大的权力、更多的利润、更高的生产率、更多的纸张繁荣，所有这些都可以转化为只与大小或规模有关的标准，而不是质量或卓越性。
It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
它是组成整体的各个部分的总和，所以在我看来，一个人的优秀来自于他如何去做一件事。这一切都始于思维过程——这是一种创造性的、崇高的、能产生一些与众不同的东西的思维过程。
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
这样的讨论对我们欣赏艺术或诗歌的优秀作品帮助甚微，无法区分它们的优劣，也无法使用诸如“美”、“卓越”、“艺术”、“诗歌”等词汇，而这些词汇的含义比它们原本的含义更为精确。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
一种闪亮的品质会给另一种增添光彩，或者隐藏一些明显的缺陷。
We should give the Lord the excellence He deserves in everything we do.
我们应该在我们所做的每一件事上，都要给上帝以他应得的卓越。
Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.
不要追求完美。追求卓越。
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
我们最大的光荣不在于从不跌倒，而在于每次跌倒之后都爬起来。
Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
伟大的工作是由不畏惧伟大的人完成的。
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
如果穷人的痛苦不是由自然法则造成的，而是由我们的制度造成的，那么我们的罪就太大了。