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Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
知识总是从爱好开始，犹如光总是从火开始一样。
－Thomas
Carlyle（英国历史学家卡莱尔）
People
need to know one another to be at their honest best.
人们需要相互了解才能达到最诚实的境界。
－(Robbins
Staca（英国作家斯达卡）
Admonish
your friends privately, but praise them openly.
要私下告诫朋友，但是要公开夸奖朋友。
－Publius
Syrus（叙利亚作家西拉丁）
All
happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own
way.
所有幸福的家庭都相似，而每个不幸的家庭各不同。
－Leo
Tolstoy（俄国文学家托尔斯泰）
Friendship
is both a source of pleasure and a component of good health.
友谊既是快乐之源泉，又是健康之要素。
－Ralph
Waldo Emerson（美国思想家爱默生）
If
you don’t learn to think when you are young, you may never learn.
如果你年轻时没有学会思考，那就永远学不会思考。
－Thomas
Edison（美国发明家爱迪生）
Whoever
is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
不管是谁，匆匆忙忙只能说明他不能从事他所从事的工作。
－Philip
Dormer Chesterfield（英国政治家切斯特菲尔德）
It
takes a lot of thought and effort and downright determination to be agreeable.
要做到与人融洽相处，需要仔细地思考，认真地努力和痛下决心。
－Ralph
Waldo Emerson（美国思想家爱默生）
When
work is a pleasure, life is joy! When work is duty, life is slavery.
工作是一种乐趣时，生活是一种享受！工作是一种义务时，生活则是一种苦役。
－Maxim
Gorky（俄国作家高尔基）
It
is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.
不能爱哪行才干哪行，要干哪行爱哪行。
－Winston
Churchill（英国首相，丘吉尔）
A
man is called selfish, not pursuing his own good, but neglecting his neighbour’s.
追求自身的利益，不是自私；只有忽视他人的利益，才是自私。
－Richard
Whately (美国牧师惠特利)
People
need to know one another to be at their honest best.
人们需要相互了解才能达到最诚实的境界。
－(Robbins
Staca（英国作家斯达卡）
One
thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
一次痛苦的经验抵得上千百次的告诫。
－James
Russell Lowell（英国诗人洛威尔）
Throughout
life, we rely on small groups of people for love, admiration, respect, moral
support and help.
整个一生，
我们都有赖于从一些人群中获得友爱、赏识、尊重、道义支持和帮助。
－Ralph
Waldo Emerson（美国思想家爱默生）
He
that will not allow his friend to share the prize must not expect him to share
the danger.
不肯让朋友共享果实的人，不要指望朋友与他共患难。
－Aesop（古希腊寓言作家伊索）
No
man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
任何人自己都不是完整的；他的朋友是他的其余部分。
－Harry
Emerson Fosdick（美国牧师福斯迪克）
Treat
other people as you hope they will treat you.
你希望别人如何对待你，你就如何对待别人。
－Aesop（古希腊寓言家伊索）
Experience
more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficult than
their tongues.
经验给了我们太多的教训，告诉我们人类最难管制的东西，莫过于自己的舌头。
－Bendict
de Spinoza（荷兰哲学家斯宾诺沙）
The
greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
人生最大的教训是要知道即使傻瓜有时候也是对的。
－Winston
Churchill（英国政治家丘吉尔）
The
greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
权力越大，滥用职权的危险就越大。
－Burke
Edmund（英国政治家埃德蒙）
If
you fight for yourself, only you can win; when you fight for your marriage, you
both win.
如果你只为自己奋斗，只有你一个人是赢家；若为婚姻奋斗，夫妻两人都是赢家。
－Pearsall
Paul（美国哲学家保罗）
When
you want knowledge like you want air under water then you will get it.
当你需要知识就像你在水底需要空气时，你准能得到它。
－Socrates（古希腊哲学家苏格拉底）
Behavior
is a mirror in which every one shows his image.
行为是一面镜子，每个人都把自己的形象显现于其中。
－Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe（德国诗人歌德）
There
is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the
ability to recognize.
有的东西比才能稀罕得多，珍贵得多，这就是识别的能力。
－Robert
Half（英国作家哈夫）
The
more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
事越做越能，人越忙越有空。
－William
Hazlitt（英国评论家哈滋里特）
A
man, like a watch, is to be valued by this manner of going.
一个人，正如一个时钟，是以他的行动来定其价值的。
－William
Penn（英国海军上将佩恩）
The
tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight
experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imagination.
世界的悲剧就在于有想象力的人缺乏经验，而有经验的人缺乏想象力。
－Alfred
North Whitehead（英国哲学家怀特海）
The
way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
赢得核战争的方法是确保它永远不会发生。
－Bradley
Omar（美国上将奥马尔）
Experience
is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
经验是当你没得到想得到之物时所得到的东西。
－Dan
Stanfort（美国实业家斯坦福）
To
make a lasting marriage we have to overcome self-centeredness.
要使婚姻长久，就需克服自我中心意识。
－George
Gordon Byron（英国诗人，拜伦）
All
I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
我之所有，我之所能，都归功于我天使般的母亲。
－Abraham
Lincoln（美国总统林肯）
Experience
without learning is better than learning without experience.
<>有经验而无学问胜于有学问而无经验。
－Bertrand
Russell（英国哲学家罗素）
Experience
keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.
经验始终是收费高的学校，然而，笨汉非进此学校不可。
－Benjamin
Franklin（美国总统富兰克林）
Follow
your own course, and let people talk.
走自己的路，让人家去说吧。
－Alghieri
Dante（意大利诗人但丁）
If
you would have a thing well done, you must do it yourself.
如果要将事情做好，就得亲自动手。
－Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow（美国诗人朗费罗）
Nothing
is more terrible than ignorance in action.
最可怕的事莫过于行动中的无知。
－Desiderius
Eramus（荷兰人文主义者伊拉莫斯）
Our
deeds determine us, much as we determine our deeds.
什么样的人便决定了干什么样的事；同样，干什么样的事也决定了是什么样的人。
－George
Eliot（英国小说家艾略特）
When
a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty little package.
一个只顾自己的人不足以成大器。
－John
Ruskin（英国作家罗斯金）
The
secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are
happy or not.
痛苦的秘密在于有闲功夫担心自己是否幸福。
－George
Bernard Shaw（英国剧作家肖伯纳）
Optimists
always picture themselves accomplishing their goals.
乐观主义者总是想象自己实现了目标的情景。
－Lucius
Annaeus Seneca（古罗马哲学家，西尼加）
Almost
any situation ---good or bad--- is affected by the attitude we bring to.
差不多任何一种处境-----无论是好是坏-----都受到我们对待处境的态度的影响。
－Lucius
Annaeus Seneca（古罗马哲学家西尼加）
Perhaps
you can’t control your job, but you may be able to make other changes in your
life.
或许你不能支配自己的工作，但你能够使生活发生转变。
－Alan
Loy Mcginnis（英国作家麦金尼斯）
The
Chinese word for crisis is divided into two characters, one meaning danger and
the other meaning opportunity.
中文的“危机“分为两个字，一个意味着危险，另外一个意味着机会。
－Burejer（英国作家布瑞杰）
The
tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss.
生活的悲剧不在于人们受到多少苦，而在于人们错过了什么。（英国散文家、历史学家，卡莱尔）
－Thomas
Carlyle（英国散文家卡莱尔）
I
find life an exciting business ------ and most exciting when it is lived for
others.
我发现生活是令人激动的事情，尤其是为别人活着时。
－Helen
Keller（美国作家，海伦•凯勒）
Young
men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
年轻人一生中常犯大错误，其中之一就是把爱情太理想化了。
－John
Ray（美国科学家雷伊）
I
don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know
it has got down to work.
我从不等待情绪的来临。如果你一味等待，就将一事无成。你必须牢记，只有动手才能有所得。
－Pearl
Buck（美国作家赛珍珠）
Experience
is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men
from books.
经验是思想之子，思想是行动之子，了解他人不可以书本为据。
－Benjamin
Disraeli（英国政治家狄斯雷利）
The
measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never
be found out.
衡量一个人真正的品质，要看他在知道永远也不会被人发现的情况下做些什么。
－Thomas
Bobington Macaulay（英国历史学家麦考莱）
Take
time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go
in.
考虑是不要匆忙，但是一旦行动的时刻来到，就要毫不犹豫地投身行动。
－John
Albion Andrew（美国废奴运动领导人安德鲁）
001
The sting of a reproach,is the truth of it.
指责带给你刺痛，正是它的忠实之处。
002 Virtue and happiness are mother and daugher.
美德和幸福犹如母女。
003 TAll mankind are beholden to him that is kind to the good.
行善者，人人铭记之。
004 It＇s
the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.
自欺是世上最易之事。
005 ＇Tis
easier to prevent bad hadits than to breadk them.
防止染上恶习远比消除恶习容易。
006 An old man in a house is a good sign.
家中有老是一个好迹象。
007 Speak with contempt of none,form slave to king,the meanest bee,and will
use,a sting.
别用言词贬低任何人，无论国王还是奴隶。最卑戝的蜜蜂也
008 Beware,beware!he＇ll
cheat＇ithout
scruple,who can without fear.
当心，当心！行骗而无所畏惧者，也将无所顾虑。
009 How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults.or resolution
enough to mend them!
承认并改正错误，需要有足够的勇气和决心
010 If thou dost ill,the joy fades,not the pains;if well,the pain doth fade,the
joy remains.
你若作恶，消失的是快乐而非痛苦；你若行善，消失的
011 Trick and treachery are the practice if fools,that have not wit enough to be
honest.
傻瓜习惯于诡计和背判的伎俩，他们还没聪明到学会真诚待人
012 Great beauty,great stength,and great riches,are really and truly of no great
use;a right heart exceeds all.
貌美，力大，有钱，实无大益；一
013 Let our fathers and garandfathers be valued for their goodness,ourselves for
our own.
让父亲和祖辈因他们的善行受到尊重，让我们因我们自己的
014 Thirst after desert,not reward.
渴求美德而非奖赏。
015 If thou injurest conscience,it will have its revenge on thee.
伤害良心，将受到良心的严惩。
016 If thou wouldest live long,live well;for folly and wickedness shorten life.
若欲求长寿，生活须行善，因为蠢行和邪恶会把生命缩短。
017 Each year one vicious habit rooted out,in time minght make the worst man
good throughout.
每年根除一恶习，恶根亦会成完人。
018 None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault,or acknowledge
himself in an error.
唯有有教养者方知如何承认错误，或意识到自己行为
019 If you do what you should not,you must hear what you would not.
若做了不应做之事，则必然会听见不愿听之语。
020 Let thy vices die before thee.
让恶习先你死去。
021 Act uprightly,and despise calumny.Dirt may stick to a mud wall,but not
polish＇d
marble.
为人正直的就不惧诽谤：污物可以沾到泥墙上，却附不
022 An honest man will receive neither money nor praise,that is not his due.
正直的人既不收受他人的钱财，也不接受他人的奉承，这些都不是他应得的
023 The honest man takes pains,and then enjoys pleasure,the knave takes
pleasure,and then suffers pains.
正直的人先经历痛苦，然后享受欢乐；无赖
024 He that doth what he should not,shall feel what he would not.
若做了不应该做的事，则将产生自己所不希望有的感觉。
025 The goodwill of the governed will be starv＇d,if
not fed by the good deeds of the governors.
被统治者的良好愿望，若无统治者的善待，亦会饿死
026 The brave and the wise can both pity and excuse,when cowards and fools shew
no mercy.
勇者和智者均有同情谅解之心，而懦夫和愚者则毫无怜悯之
027 Calamity and prisperity are the touchstones of integrity.
不幸与幸运都是正直的试金石。
028 Who judges best of a man,his enemies or himself?
谁能最恰当地评价一个人，他的敌人还是他自己？
029 Cunning proceeds from want of capacity.
狡诈出自于能力的缺乏。
030 You may be too cunning for one,but not for all.
蒙骗得了一人，但蒙骗不了所有的人。
031 Clean your finger,before you point at my spots.
先洗浄你的手指，再指出我的污迹。
032 He that can bear a reproof,and mend by it,if he is not wise,is in a fair way
of being so.
能承受责备并据此改过者，若不算是智者，也距之不远
033 Tis hard to be poor and honest:An empty sack can hardly stand upright,but if
it does,＇tis
a stout one!
要做到贫穷而又诚实实在不容易
034 Keep conscience clear,then never fear.
问心无愧，永无畏惧。
035 When you＇re
good to others,you are best to yourself.
善待他人，即是最善待自己。
036 What is serving God?＇Tis
doing good to man.
什么才算是为上帝奉献？即对人行善。
037 A quite conscience sleeps in thunder,but rest and guilt live far adunder.
平静的良心能在雷声中入睡，而安宁和负罪则无法毗邻。
038 There is no man so bad,but he secretly respects the good.
再坏的人都会暗自敬重好人。
039 A true great man will neither trample on a worm,nor sneak to an emperpor.
真正的伟人既不大肆践踏小人物，也不会在皇帝面前奴顔卑膝。
040 Do me the favour to deny me at once.
立即把我拒绝，以此给我恩惠。
041 You may be more happy than pinces,if you will be more virtuous.
如果你能多做善事，你会比王子还要幸福。
042 Who has deceiv＇d
thee so oft as thy self?
欺骗你的莫过于自己。
043 Nothing so popular as goodness.
最的欢迎的是善行。
044 Don＇t
misinform your doctor nor your lawyer.
别向医生和律师提供错误的消息。
045 A good lawyar a bad neighbour.
好律师坏邻居。
046 The excellency of hogs is fatness,of men virtue.
猪的优点在于肥壮，人的优点在于美德。
047 Don＇t
throw stones at your neightbours,if your own windows are glass.
假如你家的窗户是玻璃做的，别用石头打你的邻居。
048 Keep flax from fire,youth from gaming.
亚麻远离火苗，青年远离赌博。
049 One mend-fault is worth two find-faults,but one find-fault is better than
two make-faults.
一个改正之错相当于两个发现之错，但一个发现之错好
050 The sun never repents of the good he does,nor does he ever demand a
recompence.
太阳绝不为它所做的善事后悔，也从不指望任何报酬。
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