A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
阅读
Reading
Reading to small children is a specialty.
给小孩子读书是一种专长。
Readers are plentiful, thinkers are rare.
读者多,思考者少。
Ride higher in life unto the higher life.
骑在更高的生活到更高的生活。
Shine forth your light before all beings.
把你的光照亮所有的生灵。
All I have learned, I learned from books.
我所有的知识都是从书本上学来的。
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
机智毕竟是一种读心术。
I look at every book as a self-help book.
我把每本书都看作是一本自助书。
He fed his spirit with the bread of books.
他以书的食粮充饥。
We profit little by books we do not enjoy.
我们从不喜欢的书中获益甚少。
Have the best course for all your actions.
对你所有的行为都要有最好的计划。
Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
阅读需要独处,需要专注。
A word after a word after a word is power.
一个字接一个字就是力量。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
喜欢读书的人通常是思想高尚、见解高尚的人。
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
你永远找不到一杯足够大的茶或一本书足够长来适合我。
When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
当我成为国王时,他们不仅有面包和住所,而且还有书本上的教导,因为在思想饥饿的地方,饱腹是没有什么价值的。
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。
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
读书不是为了反驳和驳倒,也不是为了相信和想当然……而是要权衡和考虑。
We live and breathe words.
我们活着,呼吸着语言。