If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered. ( AL Jaber )
宝石即使落在泥潭里,仍是一样可贵;尘土纵然扬到天上,还是没有价值。(贾比尔)
Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. ( Strong)
与其诅咒黑暗,不如燃起蜡烛。(斯特郎)
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. ( J. Burroughs )
一个人可以失败许多次,但是只要他没有开始责怪别人,他还不是一个失败者。(巴勒斯)
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind. ( Carlyle )
工作是医治人间一切病痛和疾苦的万应良药。(卡莱尔)
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. ( B. Franklin)
二十岁时起支配作用的是意志,三十岁时是机智,四十岁时是判断。(富兰克林)
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss. ( T. Carlyle )
生活的悲剧不在于人们受到多少苦,而在于人们错过了什么。(卡莱尔)
To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. ( J. W. Gardner )
对聪明人来说,每一天的时间都是要精打细算的。(加德纳)
Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of life. (Goethe )
天才形成于平静中,性格来自于生活的激流。(歌德)
Wherever valour true is found, true modesty will there abound. ( W. S. Gilbert )
真正的勇敢,都包含谦虚。(吉尔伯特)
We can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. (W. Roger )
我们不可能都成为英雄。总得有人在英雄走过的时候坐在路边鼓掌。(罗杰)
Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad. (Euripides )
上帝要谁灭亡,必先让他疯狂。(欧里比德斯)
Life is a leaf of paper white, thereon each of us may write his word or two. ( A. Lowell )
生活是一张白纸,每个人都在上面写上自己的一两句话。(洛威尔)
On earth there is nothing great but man; in the man there is nothing great but mind. ( A. Hamilton )
地球上唯一伟大的是