If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.

  • -- John Lubbock 卢伯克

如果我们对该做什么有任何疑问,问问自己明天希望做什么是一个好习惯。

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Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people's strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves?

通常,我们很快就会指责别人,但却无法给出建设性的回应。似乎有怀疑一切的倾向。难道我们不相信我们自己人民的力量和我们的制度吗?我们能承受彼此间的不信任吗?

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

理解这条定律,你就会毫无疑问地知道,你一直在为自己犯下的每一个错误而惩罚自己,为自己沉迷于其中的每一个建设性行为而奖励自己。

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

质疑阈限实例的本质和含义必然涉及到失败,即使只是在进入普遍的成功标准几乎不适用的空间的特定技术意义上。

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

问的人傻五分钟,不问的人永远傻。