Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

  • -- Ezra Cornell 埃兹拉·康奈尔

懒惰之于人的心灵,犹如生锈之于铁。

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I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

我从我在艾滋病世界的这一伟大冒险中所遇到的人们身上学到的关于爱、无私和人类理解的东西,比我在这个竞争残酷的世界中所经历的一切都要多。

But my message to people with or without a condition is the fact that you can still do anything you set your mind to. You just have to do it in a slightly different way than other people.

但我要告诉人们的是,无论有没有条件,你都可以做任何你下定决心要做的事情。你只需要用一种和其他人稍微不同的方式来做。

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

一定有人警告过你,不要让黄金时间白白溜走;但有些是金色的,只是因为我们让它们溜走了。

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

坐在遐想中,观看波浪的变幻,它们拍打着心灵的闲散海岸。

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

我们在人类头脑中发现的第一种最简单的情感是好奇心。

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

懒惰远非万恶之源,相反,它是唯一真正的善。