A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
阅读
Reading
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
一个读者在他死之前经历了一千次生命。从不读书的人只活一次。
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
我发现，书籍具有让时间静止、后退或飞向未来的力量。
Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well.
选择，选择，决定比比皆是。选择正确，做出最好的选择，做出正确的决定。
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
那些被世界称为不道德的书，是那些让世界感到羞耻的书。
Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.
我们在短暂而忙碌的生活中读到的每一本新书，都意味着一本经典没有读。
If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.
如果你想告诉我一个人的心，不要告诉我他读了什么，而要告诉我他重读了什么。
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
让我们读书，让我们跳舞;这两种娱乐方式对世界是无害的。
Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.
阅读是一个强大的引擎，与之相比，蒸汽和电力就显得微不足道了。
To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.
做一个受人喜爱的人是幸运的礼物;但写作和阅读是与生俱来的。
Create your world with God's Word in your mouth just say it and it will be accomplished!
用神的话创造你的世界，只要你说出来，你的世界就会实现!
We have been raised to a height that is unattainable and unimaginable for a natural man.
我们已经被提升到一个常人无法企及和想象的高度。
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
书籍是忠实的镜子，它向我们的心灵反映了圣人和英雄的思想。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
We read to know we are not alone.
我们读书是为了知道我们并不孤单。
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
我宁愿贫穷时住在书屋里，也不愿做一个没有读书欲望的国王。
I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.
我希望在我的书中，我能帮助孩子们看到他们的优点，并向他们展示我对他们偶尔可能经历的事情有一些了解。尤其是在棘手的时刻，回到过去逃避事情比向前面对事情更容易。
Love doesn't sit there like a stone. It has to made like bread; remade all the time, made new.
爱不是一块木头，一动不动的坐在那里。它必须像面包一样;不断改造，不断创新。
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
文学为现实添彩，而不是简单地描述现实。它丰富了日常生活所需和提供的必要能力;在这方面，它灌溉着我们的生活已经变成沙漠的土地。
How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
这样度过一个晚上是多么愉快啊!我声明，毕竟没有什么享受像阅读!一个人对任何事情的厌倦都比厌倦一本书快得多!要是我有了自己的房子，要是没有一间漂亮的书房，那才叫可怜呢。