If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

  • -- Anne Bradstreet 布拉德斯特里特

如果没有冬天,春天就不会如此怡人;如果我们不经历逆境,繁荣就不会如此受欢迎。

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Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

七年半前,我开始了自己的旅程。对我和我的家人来说,这是一个不幸的时刻。但在那次灾难中,我获得了更深的信念。从逆境中诞生的是一种承诺,致力于那些人和那些对我真正重要的事情。

Society can take two roads - the road to genuine prosperity, or the road to artificial stimulus. The first results in a permanent higher standard of living for all; the latter creates an inflationary boom that cannot last.

社会可以走两条路——通往真正繁荣的道路,或通往人为刺激的道路。第一个目标是使所有人的生活水平永远提高;后者造成了无法持续的通胀繁荣。

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

秋天有一种和谐,天空有一种光彩,整个夏天都听不见,也看不见,仿佛它不可能存在,仿佛它不曾存在过!

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

漫长、沉闷、单调的中年顺境或中年逆境是魔鬼活动的好天气。

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

春天的到来!一切事物都要响应召唤;树要走了,收银员逃走了。

We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.

我们说:高兴得发疯。我们应该说:智慧与悲伤。