If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

如果我们希望得到我们不可能拥有的东西,我们的行动和思考都是徒劳的,我们使生活成为一个比实际更伟大的梦想和阴影。

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People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

人们真正的希望和梦想可能被扭曲、误导和包装,直到你不确定自己真正想要什么,甚至不确定自己真正需要什么。

Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you’d like to act.

做你想做的事,很快你就会成为你想做的事。

It is vain to fish without a hook, or learn to read without a book.

钓鱼不带钩,读书不读书,都是徒劳的。

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

名利常使作家虚荣,但很少使他骄傲。

In that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.

以那种遥远而充满希望的方式,不真实的事物可以成为现实。

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

我们谈原则,但按动机行事。