To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

  • -- Walter Horatio Pater 佩特

把一切事物和事物的原则都看成是不固定的模式或风尚,已越来越成为现代思想的倾向。

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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

万物都是无常的,惟有属灵的信心能改变万物,使万物充满光明。我虽然像一个不信的人,被赶出我的家乡,却找不着一个像我这样有信心的人。

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

当一个好人投身于奴隶制的倡导时,他必须至少在一段时间内,在他的新思想、学说和推理模式中,感到自己除了在家里之外,什么地方都是自在的。

I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

我倾向于接受自己的挑战。事情越困难,我就越想去尝试。

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

人类把小事看得很重要的倾向产生了很多伟大的事情。