Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

  • -- William Cowper 威廉·考珀

仪式引导着她的偏执,准备为毫无价值的阴影而战。然而,永恒的事物所依赖的真理却很难找到一个朋友。

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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

从前站在前的,当退到后;从前站在后的,当进到前。顽固的人,愚顽的人,污秽的人,当推陈出新。

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

在信仰中,有足够的光给那些想要相信的人,有足够的阴影让那些不相信的人失明。

Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies.

正如高大的树木因其阴影而为人所知,好人也因其敌人而为人所知。