Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

只要你的目标是履行你的职责,人类就会在你失败的地方给你荣誉。

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In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

每一个士兵都有责任反思过去的经验,努力在自己的行动领域内发现在不久的将来切实可行的改进之处。

When people walk away from you, let them go your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over.

当人们离开你的时候,让他们离开你。你的命运永远不会和离开你的人联系在一起,这并不意味着他们是坏人。这只是意味着他们在你故事中的角色结束了。

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

心胸狭窄、缺乏想象力的小个子男人过着循规蹈矩的生活,沾沾自喜地抵制一切可能会扰乱他们的小天地的变化。

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

人往往能做比他们所做的更伟大的事情——他们被送到这个世界上的时候,身上带着信用的票据,却很少能充分发挥。

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

如果你害怕让任何人发疯,那么你最终会探索人类成就的最低公分母。

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

永远不要称会计为他的职业的荣誉;一个好的会计对他的职业是有好处的。

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

我的目标是以最好最简单的方式把我看到的和感觉到的写在纸上。

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

任何道德戒律都有其不便之处。

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

失败很难,但从未尝试过成功更糟。

I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.

就像他们说的,我宁愿尝试又失败,也不愿完全不尝试。