True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

  • -- William Penn 威廉·佩恩

真正的敬虔并没有把人赶出这个世界,而是使他们能更好地生活在这个世界上,并激励他们努力去修补这个世界。

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Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

的确,科学家是幸福的,他不仅拥有我列举的快乐,而且还赢得了其他科学家和人类的认可,这些认可最终得益于他的努力。

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

文明人比野蛮人更不礼貌,因为他们知道,通常情况下,即使他们的头颅没有被劈开,也可能是不礼貌的。

I like men to be men and I like them to care about me and to take care of me. I'm willing to let them do that.

我喜欢男人成为男人,我喜欢他们关心我,照顾我。我愿意让他们这么做。

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

正是未知激发了学者们的热情,他们只对已知的事物感到厌倦。

There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own.

除了你看待世界的方式,没有好坏之分。除了你自己,没有黑暗或光明。

It's next to impossible to be yourself when the world is trying to make you be ordinary.

当这个世界想让你变得平凡的时候,做你自己几乎是不可能的。

Get the coffin ready and watch the man mend.

把棺材准备好,看那人修理。