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Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

  • -- Mark Twain 马克·吐温

对僵化的观点的忠诚从来没有打破过枷锁，也从来没有解放过一个人的灵魂。

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When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

当我拿着铲子走进花园，挖了一张床，我感到如此的兴奋和健康，我发现我一直在欺骗自己，让别人为我做我本应该用自己的双手做的事情。

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Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen.

光有危机是不够的。对特定候选人的信任也必须有一个基础，尽管这个基础既不理性，也不完全正确。

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A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

我们被告知，政治家应该听从民意。毫无疑问，就像马车夫跟在马背后面一样;牢牢地抓住缰绳，引导他们。

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Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.

伟大的信仰是伟大斗争的产物。伟大的见证是伟大考验的结果。伟大的胜利只能来自伟大的考验。

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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

要像太阳或大海一样仁慈，但是如果你作为一个理性存在的权利被牢牢地钉住，那就死在你领土的第一寸土地上。

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Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

无论我们身在何处，请转过身来，伟大事件的声音在向我们宣告:改革吧，你们可以保留!

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The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.

对那些怀疑真理可能性的人来说，唯一的哲学就是绝对的沉默——甚至是精神上的沉默。

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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

什么时候，我们的良心会变得如此温柔，以至于我们会采取行动，阻止人类的苦难，而不是为之复仇?

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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

永远记住，你不仅有权利成为一个独立的人，你也有义务成为一个独立的人。

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Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?"

有些人看到事情的本来面目，会说:“为什么?”我梦想着从未有过的事情，我说:“为什么不呢?”

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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

估计统治者智力的第一种方法是观察他身边的人。

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Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

给我看一个人物，他的生活激起了我的好奇心，我的肉体开始因悬疑而蠕动。

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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

毛毛虫所谓的世界末日，大师称之为蝴蝶。

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Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

当理智可以自由地与错误作斗争时，意见的错误是可以容忍的。

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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

比反叛更糟的事是引起反叛的事。

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Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

好奇心是自然界中唯一不可战胜的东西。

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