I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

  • -- William Butler Yeats 叶芝

我认为你可以把艺术,无论优劣,留给人类的良知去决定。

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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.

值得怀疑的是,人类是否最感激那些像培根和巴特勒那样从文学宝库中挖掘黄金的人,还是最感激那些像佩利那样净化它、盖章、确定它的真正价值并赋予它货币和效用的人。

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

教育的伟大目的在于训练,而不是灌输思想;训练它运用自己的力量,而不是用别人的力量来充实它。

Say what you are thinking, not what you think you should say. She'll appreciate it, even if it's not always what she wants to hear.

说你在想什么,而不是你认为你应该说什么。她会很感激的,即使这并不总是她想听到的。

Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

人类有自己的地方情结。他们特别注意他们出生和成长的地方。

The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.

盎格鲁-撒克逊人的良心并没有阻止他们犯罪,它只是阻止他们享受自己的罪恶。

Go by your own conscience.

凭你自己的良心去做。