A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
阅读
Reading
Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.
阅读。一直阅读。读书要有原则，要有自尊。阅读是生活的营养主食。
Don't just float through life; don't just agree to anything and everything, have a course you are known for at all times.
不要随波逐流;不要什么都同意，要有一门你一直都知道的课程。
If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.
如果你重读你的作品，你会发现在重读的时候，大量的重复可以通过重读和编辑来避免。
God comes down in the evenings to chat with man, enjoy man's company and find out how man faired in the course of the day.
上帝在晚上降临与人交谈，享受与人为伴，并发现人在一天的过程中是如何变得美丽的。
You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.
你看，阅读最好的一点就是，当你不读书的时候，你总是有东西可以思考。
Did you ever hear anyone say ‘That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me’?
你有没有听过有人说“最好禁止工作，因为我可能会读它，它可能会对我造成很大的伤害”?
All we have to say is thank you Lord! When you are grateful for what he's done for you, he lifts you to a higher altitudes.
我们所要说的就是感谢主!当你感激他为你所做的一切时，他会把你提升到更高的高度。
A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.
一个好的故事是作者和读者共同的梦想。任何将读者从梦中唤醒的行为都是一种致命的罪恶。
Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.
诗歌、戏剧、小说、音乐，它们是人类精神的呐喊，试图理解自己，理解我们的世界。
Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.
读书时喝杯酒，把脚放在你的背上。这就是快乐的最佳组合。
If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.
如果你在读这篇文章……祝贺你,你还活着。如果这不是什么值得笑的事，那我不知道还有什么值得笑的。
Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.
一般来说，书不会造成太大的伤害。除非你读了它们。然后他们造成各种各样的问题。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
读书之于心灵，犹如运动之于身体。
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
书有可浅尝者，有可吞食者，少数则须咀嚼消化。
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
当我阅读伟大的文学作品、伟大的戏剧、演讲或布道时，我觉得人类的心灵除了通过语言来分享情感和思想外，没有取得任何更大的成就。
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。
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
通过阅读圣经，我是如此的新生，所有的自然似乎在我周围和我更新。天空似乎一片纯净，一片湛蓝，树木一片翠绿。整个世界充满了上帝的荣耀，我感到脚下有火焰和音乐。
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
每一个懂得读书的人都有能力使自己变得伟大，使自己的生活方式多样化，使自己的生活充实、有意义、有趣。