Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

  • -- John Adams 约翰·亚当斯

老年人的思想像老马;如果你想让它们正常工作,你就必须锻炼它们。

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My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always 'Out of the house!' There was no watching television on weekends.

我和我的朋友们会早起,带着我们的马穿过国家森林。我妈妈很自由。总是“在屋外!”周末不许看电视。

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.

但当你长时间失去它,你就会珍惜人类的陪伴。但你必须活下来,所以你设计了各种各样的心理练习,这很神奇。

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

一个想成为伟人的男孩,不应该仅仅下定决心去克服一千个障碍,而应该下定决心去战胜一千个挫折和失败。

By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master.

这样,你就可以把各种各样的马打扮得极其完美,只要你知道怎样训练它;在大师手中很容易的东西。

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

它可以成为一种尝试让读者喜欢和欣赏你的练习,而不是一种创造性的艺术练习。

The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done.

头脑有一千只眼睛,而心只有一只;然而,当爱完成时,整个生命之光也就熄灭了。

It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.

为了被别人接受,你必须取悦别人,这绝对是一种感觉的拐杖。

Order doesn't come by itself.

秩序不是自己来的。