Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

  • -- Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗

凡活着的,无论是人,是鹿,是松树,都比死了好。

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Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

纯洁并不是强加在我们身上的,好像它是一种惩罚,它是那种神秘而明显的条件之一,使我们对自己在神性中的超自然认识,我们称之为信仰。不洁净并不会破坏我们的知识,它只会减少我们对知识的需求。

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

如果你要摧毁对人类不朽的信仰,不仅是爱,而且是世界上所有生命延续所依赖的每一种生命力,都会立刻枯竭。

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

我既不能选择我喜欢的人,也不能拒绝我不喜欢的人;活着的女儿的意志也会被死去的父亲的意志所约束。

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

我有一个九年级的老师,他告诉我,我比自己想象的要聪明得多,也要优秀得多。

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

穿耳洞的男人为结婚做了更好的准备——他们经历过痛苦,也买过珠宝。

I'd rather be dead than dying.

我宁死也不要死。