It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

人们有责任仅从他们的行为来判断他们。我们的才能使我们无法达到动机、性格和秘密的自我。我们从果实中称树为善,从行为中称人为善。

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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

司法审判必须深刻考虑到前天,这样昨天才不会使今天瘫痪。

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

思想是强大的东西,它不需要勤奋的沉思,而是一种行动,即使它只是一种内在的行动。

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

真正的学问不在于知道事物的存在,而在于知道它们的意义;这不是记忆,而是判断。

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

当你是个年轻人的时候,麦克白就是你性格的一部分。当你变老的时候,它是直的部分。

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

拯救一个人的是迈出一步。然后另一个步骤。

A man's character reaches town before his person.

一个人的性格比他本人先到达城市。