The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

  • -- Francis Quarles 夸尔斯

心虽小,但求大事。风筝的晚餐是不够的,但整个世界都不够。

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If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

如果没有战争,就不会有伟大的将军;如果没有伟大的时刻,你就不会有伟大的政治家;如果林肯生活在和平时期,没有人会知道他的名字。

Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.

音乐是治疗。音乐的人。它以其他媒体无法做到的方式将人们联系在一起。它牵动心弦。它就像药物一样。

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

我们在被任命的职位上所需要的是有知识和经验的人,他们有足够的性格来抵制诱惑。

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

美既神秘又可怕。上帝和魔鬼在那里战斗,战场是人类的心脏。

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

伟大的天才是通过与另一个伟大天才的接触而形成的,但是,与其说是由于同化,不如说是由于虚构。

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

通常情况下,我所认识的人,即使没有任何虚构的东西,也足以制造许多噩梦。