The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

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

做好一件事的回报是已经做了。

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Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

个性建立在感觉之上;而情感的深处,也就是性格中较暗、较暗的层次,是我们在这个世界上唯一能捕捉到现实的地方,在那里我们能直接感知事件是如何发生的,以及工作实际上是如何完成的。

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

一个孩子也永远无法理解这样一个事实:同样是这位母亲,她做饭做得那么好,那么关心他的咳嗽,那么慈祥地帮助他做作业,在某些情况下,她对他的感情不过是隐藏在他内心世界的一堵墙。

If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

如果一个人有好玉米、好木头、好木板、好猪可以卖,或者比任何人都能做得更好的椅子、刀子、坩埚或教堂的器官,你会发现一条通往他家的宽阔的、不易走的路,尽管这条路是在树林里。

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

当你开始使用你忽略了的感官时,你的回报就是用全新的视角看世界。

The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

你能对一个孩子做的最糟糕的事情,我已经见过很多次了,就是拿银匙。

If you are brave to say "goodbye". Life will reward you with a new "hello".

如果你勇敢地说“再见”。生活会给你一个新的“你好”。

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

当一个人有高飞的冲动时,他决不会同意匍匐前进。

Well, if fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

好吧,如果幸运女神是个女人,她是这个装备的好姑娘。

Who says I can't be free from all the things I used to be?

谁说我不能摆脱过去的一切?

I've done a lot of things in my life.

我一生中做了很多事情。