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    Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
    知識總是從愛好開始,猶如光總是從火開始一樣。
    -Thomas Carlyle(英國歷史學家卡萊爾)
    People need to know one another to be at their honest best.
    人們需要相互了解才能達到最誠實的境界。
    -(Robbins Staca(英國作家斯達卡)
    Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
    要私下告誡朋友,但是要公開夸獎朋友。
    -Publius Syrus(敘利亞作家西拉?。?BR>    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,而每個不幸的家庭各不同。
    -Leo Tolstoy(俄國文學家托爾斯泰)
    Friendship is both a source of pleasure and a component of good health.
    友誼既是快樂之源泉,又是健康之要素。
    -Ralph Waldo Emerson(美國思想家愛默生)
    If you don’t learn to think when you are young, you may never learn.
    如果你年輕時沒有學會思考,那就永遠學不會思考。
    -Thomas Edison(美國發(fā)明家愛迪生)
    Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
    不管是誰,匆匆忙忙只能說明他不能從事他所從事的工作。
    -Philip Dormer Chesterfield(英國政治家切斯特菲爾德)
    It takes a lot of thought and effort and downright determination to be agreeable.
    要做到與人融洽相處,需要仔細地思考,認真地努力和痛下決心。
    -Ralph Waldo Emerson(美國思想家愛默生)
    When work is a pleasure, life is joy! When work is duty, life is slavery.
    工作是一種樂趣時,生活是一種享受!工作是一種義務時,生活則是一種苦役。
    -Maxim Gorky(俄國作家高爾基)
    It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.
    不能愛哪行才干哪行,要干哪行愛哪行。
    -Winston Churchill(英國首相,丘吉爾)
    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;只有忽視他人的利益,才是自私。
    -Richard Whately (美國牧師惠特利)
    People need to know one another to be at their honest best.
    人們需要相互了解才能達到最誠實的境界。
    -(Robbins Staca(英國作家斯達卡)
    One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
    一次痛苦的經(jīng)驗抵得上千百次的告誡。
    -James Russell Lowell(英國詩人洛威爾)
    Throughout life, we rely on small groups of people for love, admiration,respect, moral support and help.
    整個一生, 我們都有賴于從一些人群中獲得友愛、賞識、尊重、道義支持和幫助。
    -Ralph Waldo Emerson(美國思想家愛默生)
    He that will not allow his friend to share the prize must not expect him to share the danger.
    不肯讓朋友共享果實的人,不要指望朋友與他共患難。
    -Aesop(古希臘寓言作家伊索)
    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(美國牧師福斯迪克)
    Treat other people as you hope they will treat you.
    你希望別人如何對待你,你就如何對待別人。
    -Aesop(古希臘寓言家伊索)
    Experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficult than their tongues.
    經(jīng)驗給了我們太多的教訓,告訴我們人類最難管制的東西,莫過于自己的舌頭。
    -Bendict de Spinoza(荷蘭哲學家斯賓諾沙)
    The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
    人生的教訓是要知道即使傻瓜有時候也是對的。
    -Winston Churchill(英國政治家丘吉爾)
    The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
    權力越大,濫用職權的危險就越大。
    -Burke Edmund(英國政治家埃德蒙)
    If you fight for yourself, only you can win; when you fight for your marriage, you both win.
    如果你只為自己奮斗,只有你一個人是贏家;若為婚姻奮斗,夫妻兩人都是贏家。
    -Pearsall Paul(美國哲學家保羅)
    When you want knowledge like you want air under water then you will get it.
    當你需要知識就像你在水底需要空氣時,你準能得到它。
    -Socrates(古希臘哲學家蘇格拉底)
    Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image.
    行為是一面鏡子,每個人都把自己的形象顯現(xiàn)于其中。
    -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe(德國詩人歌德)
    There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize.
    有的東西比才能稀罕得多,珍貴得多,這就是識別的能力。
    -Robert Half(英國作家哈夫)
    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(英國評論家哈滋里特)
    A man, like a watch, is to be valued by this manner of going.
    一個人,正如一個時鐘,是以他的行動來定其價值的。
    -William Penn(英國海軍上將佩恩)
    The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imagination.
    世界的悲劇就在于有想象力的人缺乏經(jīng)驗,而有經(jīng)驗的人缺乏想象力。
    -Alfred North Whitehead(英國哲學家懷特海)
    The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
    贏得核戰(zhàn)爭的方法是確保它永遠不會發(fā)生。
    -Bradley Omar(美國上將奧馬爾)
    Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
    經(jīng)驗是當你沒得到想得到之物時所得到的東西。
    -Dan Stanfort(美國實業(yè)家斯坦福)
    To make a lasting marriage we have to overcome self-centeredness.
    要使婚姻長久,就需克服自我中心意識。
    -George Gordon Byron(英國詩人,拜倫)
    All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
    我之所有,我之所能,都歸功于我天使般的母親。
    -Abraham Lincoln(美國總統(tǒng)林肯)
    Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.
    有經(jīng)驗而無學問勝于有學問而無經(jīng)驗。
    -Bertrand Russell(英國哲學家羅素)
    Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.
    經(jīng)驗始終是收費高的學校,然而,笨漢非進此學校不可。
    -Benjamin Franklin(美國總統(tǒng)富蘭克林)
    Follow your own course, and let people talk.
    走自己的路,讓人家去說吧。
    -Alghieri Dante(意大利詩人但?。?BR>    If you would have a thing well done, you must do it yourself.
    如果要將事情做好,就得親自動手。
    -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(美國詩人朗費羅)
    Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
    最可怕的事莫過于行動中的無知。
    -Desiderius Eramus(荷蘭人文主義者伊拉莫斯)
    Our deeds determine us, much as we determine our deeds.
    什么樣的人便決定了干什么樣的事;同樣,干什么樣的事也決定了是什么樣的人。
    -George Eliot(英國小說家艾略特)
    When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty little package.
    一個只顧自己的人不足以成大器。
    -John Ruskin(英國作家羅斯金)
    The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
    痛苦的秘密在于有閑功夫擔心自己是否幸福。
    -George Bernard Shaw(英國劇作家肖伯納)
    Optimists always picture themselves accomplishing their goals.
    樂觀主義者總是想象自己實現(xiàn)了目標的情景。
    -Lucius Annaeus Seneca(古羅馬哲學家,西尼加)
    Almost any situation ---good or bad--- is affected by the attitude we bring to.
    差不多任何一種處境-----無論是好是壞-----都受到我們對待處境的態(tài)度的影響。
    -Lucius Annaeus Seneca(古羅馬哲學家西尼加)
    Perhaps you can’t control your job, but you may be able to make other changes in your life.
    或許你不能支配自己的工作,但你能夠使生活發(fā)生轉變。
    -Alan Loy Mcginnis(英國作家麥金尼斯)
    The Chinese word for crisis is divided into two characters, one meaning danger and the other meaning opportunity.
    中文的“危機“分為兩個字,一個意味著危險,另外一個意味著機會。
    -Burejer(英國作家布瑞杰)
    The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss.
    生活的悲劇不在于人們受到多少苦,而在于人們錯過了什么。(英國散文家、歷史學家,卡萊爾)
    -Thomas Carlyle(英國散文家卡萊爾)
    I find life an exciting business ------ and most exciting when it is lived for others.
    我發(fā)現(xiàn)生活是令人激動的事情,尤其是為別人活著時。
    -Helen Keller(美國作家,海倫•凱勒)
    Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
    年輕人一生中常犯大錯誤,其中之一就是把愛情太理想化了。
    -John Ray(美國科學家雷伊)
    I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got down to work.
    我從不等待情緒的來臨。如果你一味等待,就將一事無成。你必須牢記,只有動手才能有所得。
    -Pearl Buck(美國作家賽珍珠)
    Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books.
    經(jīng)驗是思想之子,思想是行動之子,了解他人不可以書本為據(jù)。
    -Benjamin Disraeli(英國政治家狄斯雷利)
    The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
    衡量一個人真正的品質,要看他在知道永遠也不會被人發(fā)現(xiàn)的情況下做些什么。
    -Thomas Bobington Macaulay(英國歷史學家麥考萊)
    Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
    考慮是不要匆忙,但是一旦行動的時刻來到,就要毫不猶豫地投身行動。
    -John Albion Andrew(美國廢奴運動領導人安德魯)