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。

Certainly, my father would not want to see me destroy myself in this business, as so many people in our family have been destroyed. I try to take good care of myself, but we are fighting the good fight, and the truth is powerful.

当然,我父亲不希望看到我在这个行业中毁掉自己,因为我们家有很多人已经被毁掉了。我试着照顾好自己,但我们是在打一场正义的仗,真理是强大的。

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.

一位作家去世一段时间后,他的出版商每年都很难从他那里得到一本新书。

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

恐惧是可以克服的。当我学到这一课的时候,我变成了一个更好的人,一个更好的足球运动员。

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.

一架望远镜可以把一颗恒星放大一千倍,但是一个好的新闻机构可以做得更好。

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

我们的死人对我们来说从来不是死的,除非我们把他们忘掉。