Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

  • -- George Eliot 乔治·艾略特

虚荣在冷漠下感到不安,正如温柔在无法回报的爱情下感到不安一样。

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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

意识到眼前快乐的虚假性,以及对缺乏快乐的虚荣心的无知,导致了无常。

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

当伟大的和解者死亡降临时,我们忏悔的绝不是我们的温柔,而是我们的严厉。

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

正直人的心,是无邪的,没有不义的行为,也没有虚谎的意念。

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

母亲的臂膀是温柔的,孩子们在臂膀里熟睡。