It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
—— Samuel Johnson
一个人怎样死去并不重要，重要的在于他怎样活着。

—— 塞缪尔·约翰逊

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than
none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
—— Samuel Johnson
字典和时钟一样，最坏的一种也有胜于无，而最好的一种也不能
认为是十分准确的。

—— 塞缪尔·约翰逊
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
——Tennyson

自尊，自知，自制，此三者可引致生命进入崇高的境界。

——丁尼生

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
—— R. W. Emerson
只要符合你的人生方向，什么样的工作都不低下。

—— R.W.爱默生

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend
loses more; he who loses courage loses all.
—— Cervantes
一个人，损失了财富损失大，损失了朋友损失更大；若是损失了勇气
就损失了一切。

—— 塞万提斯

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,
and some few to be chewed and digested.
—— F. Bacon
一些书可以浅尝辄止；一些书可以狼吞虎咽；而有些书则需要细嚼
慢咽，好好消化。

—— F.培根

The three foundations of learning: seeing much, suffering
much, and studying much.
—— Catherall
求学的三个基本条件是：多观察，多吃苦，多研究。

—— 加塞罗尔
It is wiser being good than bad; It is safer being meek than
fierce; It is fitter being sane than mad.
—— Browning
为善比作恶来得聪明； 温顺比凶恶来得安全；清醒比狂热来得稳妥。

—— 勃郎宁

He is the richest who is content with the least, for content
is the wealth of nature.
—— Socrates
知足常乐者最富有，因为知足本身就是财富。

—— 苏格拉底
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy,
wealthy and wise.
—— Benjamin Franklin
早睡早起能使人健康，富有，明智。

—— 本杰明·富兰克林

If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances
through life, he will soon find himself alone.
—— Samuel Johnson
如果一个人在一生中不结交新朋友，他很快就会发现自己很孤独。

—— 塞缪尔·约翰逊

Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth,
but whose branches extend into heaven.
—— Bertrand Russell
爱情之树应该深深扎在泥土中，而其枝条则要伸展于广阔的天空。

—— B·罗素

Loveliness, needs not the foreign aid of ornament, but is
when unadorn’d, adorn’d the most.
—— James Thompson
可爱，并不需要外来的装饰，天然的可爱远比雕饰的更可爱。

—— J· 汤普森
As selfishness and complaint cloud the mind, so love
with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
—— Helen Keller
自私和抱怨使心灵阴暗，愉悦的爱则使视野明朗开阔。

—— 海伦·凯勒

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
—— Joseph Conrad
你可以通过一个人的朋友，也可以通过一个人的敌人来判断他的为人。

—— 约瑟夫·康拉德
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take
it from him.
—— Benjamin Franklin
如果一个人倾其所有以求学问，那么这些学问是没有人能拿走的。

—— 本杰明·富兰克林

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds
of happiness.
—— Ralph Waldo Emerson
你每发怒一分钟，也就失去了六十秒的幸福。

—— R. W. 爱默生

All great truths are obvious truths. But no all obvcious
truths are great truths.
—— A. Huxley
伟大的真理都是明摆着的事实，但并不是所有显而易见的事实都是
伟大的真理。

——A·赫胥黎
Truth needs no colour; beauty , no pencil.
—— William Shakespeare
真理不需色彩，美丽不需涂饰。

——W·莎士比亚
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
—— Henry D. Thoreau
友谊的语言不是词句，而是意义。

——H·D·梭罗

On the great clock of time there is but one word, “now”.
—— William Shakespeare
伟大的时钟上，只有一个词：“现在”。

——莎士比亚

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living
the immortality of love.
—— Tagore
让逝者拥有不朽的荣誉，让生者拥有不朽的爱情。

——泰戈尔

New love is brightest, and long love is greatest; but
revived love is the tenderest thing known upon earth.
—— Thomas Hardy
新生的爱情绚丽多彩，长久的爱情崇高伟大；但复苏的爱情则是
世界上最温柔的事情。

——托马斯·哈代

One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an
irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life, the power of
reunion of the separated.
—— Paul Tillich
没有爱，人无法坚强，因为爱不是一种无足轻重的情感：它是生命
的血液，是分离者重新团聚的力量。

——保罗·蒂里希

People of high intellectual endowments do not require
similar ones in those they love. They are just the persons
to appreciate the wholesome gush of natural feeling, the
honest affection, the simple joy, the fullness of content-
ment with what they love.
—— Hawthorne
富有才华的人不要求他们的爱人象自己一样出众。他们所欣赏的只是
感情的自然流露、真诚的爱、朴素的乐趣以及与所爱的人在一起时的
满足。

——霍桑

Our hours in love have wings; in absence crutches.
—— Colley Cibber
爱情的时光长出了翅膀；离别时，它们是我们的精神支柱。

——C·西柏

The reading of all good books is like a conversation
with the finest men of past centuries.
—— Rene Descartes
读好书，如同与先哲们交谈。

——笛卡尔

This communicating of a man’s self to his friend works
two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth
grief in half.
—— Francis Bacon
朋友之间的交往产生两种截然相反的结果：一份快乐两人分享，能成
为双份的快乐；一份痛苦二人分担，就会只剩下一半痛苦。

——弗朗西斯·培根

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” —-that is all we know
on earth, and all we need to know.
—— John Keats
“美就是真，真就是美。”——这就是我们在人间知道和应该知道
的一切。

——约翰·济慈

If you get simple beauty and nought else, you get about
the best things God invents.
—— Robert Browning
只要你拥有纯真的美，你就拥有了上帝创造的最好的东西。

——罗伯特·布朗宁

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free, if
our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
—— Edmund Burke
如果我们能支配我们的财富，我们就会变得富裕而自由；如财富
支配了我们，我们就会变得贫穷。

——E·伯克

A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the
waters of wisdom and delight.
—— Shelley
一首伟大的诗犹如一座喷泉，不断地喷出智慧和快乐的泉水。

——雪莱

Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world
unbearable.
—— G. B. Shaw
如果没有艺术，现实的粗陋将使世界无法忍受。

——萧伯纳

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments
of the happiest and best minds.
—— Shelly
诗歌是最快乐的、最高尚的心灵在最美好、最幸福的时刻的记录。

——雪莱

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
—— Benjamin Franklin
二十岁时起支配作用的是意志，三十岁时是机智，四十岁时是判断。

——富兰克林

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting
point for happiness and usefulness.
—— Henry Morton Stanley
美满的婚姻是人生新的开始，是幸福和有益的新起点。

——H·M·斯坦利

We choose our friends by instinct, but we keep them by
judgement.
—— Alfred Capus
我们选择朋友靠的是本能，而保持友谊靠的是判断。

——A·卡普斯

A man dies often as he loses a friend. But we gain new
life by new contacts, new friends.
—— Francis Bacon
一个人每逢失去一个朋友就等于经历一次死亡。但是取得新联系，结识
新朋友却又使我们获得了新的生命。

——培根

To be without some of the things you wan is an
indispensable part of happiness.
—— Bertrand Rossell
你追求不到的东西有时也是幸福不可缺少的一部分。

——罗素

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the
chief happiness which this world affords.
—— Samuel Johnson
希望本身就是一种幸福，也许还是这个世界提供给我们的最大幸福。

——约翰逊

True love’s the gift which God has given to man alone
beneath the heaven.
—— Sir Walter Scott
真爱是上帝单独赐予普天之下芸芸众生的礼物。

——司各特

And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes
heaven drowsy with the harmony.
—— Shakespeare
当爱说话时，众神的声音使苍天沉浸在和谐的静寂中。

——莎士比亚

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to
explain it.
—— R. Tagore
爱是一个无穷无尽的谜，因为没有任何其他东西能够解释它。

——R·泰戈尔

Among those whom I like, I can find no common
denominator, but among those whom I love, I can:
all of them make me laugh.
—— W.H. Auden
我无法在我所喜欢的人中间找到共同的特征，但我能在我所爱
的人中间找到它：他们都会使我欢笑。

——W·H·奥登

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when persued, is always
just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down
quietly, may alight upon you.
—— N. Hawthorne
幸福如一只蝴蝶，当你想追寻时，总也抓不到；但当你安静地坐下来
时，它也许会飘落到你的身上。

——N·霍桑

There’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
—— Thomas Moore
生命中没有任何东西能象进入充满活力的爱之梦那样甜美。

——T·穆尔

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the
amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no
part in him, and precious to those who have the better
part in him.
—— Plato
爱是美好带来的欢欣，智慧创造的奇观，神仙赋予的惊奇。缺乏爱的
人渴望得到它，拥有爱的人又万般珍惜它。

——柏拉图

There is no paradise on earth equal to the union of love
and innocence.
—— Rousseau
人世间最大的幸福莫过于既有爱情又爱得纯洁无暇。

——卢梭
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Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.
—— Richard Peters
人生应有目标，否则你的努力将成徒劳。

——理查·比德斯

Whenever you have an aim you must sacrifice something
of freedom to attain it.
—— William Somerset Maugham
不论什么时候，只要你有一个目标，就得牺牲一定的自由去实现它。

——W·S·毛姆

If your ship doesn’t come in , swim out to it!
—— Jonathan Winters
如果你的船不驶进来，那你就朝它游过去吧！

——J·温特斯
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The very reputation of being strong-willed, plucky, and
indefatigable is of priceless value.
—— Charles Robert Darwin
意志坚强、胆量过人和不屈不挠的名声，乃是一种无价之宝。

—— 达尔文
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the down is still 　　dark.
——R. Tagore
信念是黎明前天尚黑时感到光明的鸟。

——泰戈尔

Great works are performed not by strength but by
perseverance.
——Samuel Johnson
伟大工作的完成，不是凭力量，而是凭着坚持不懈。

——塞缪尔·约翰逊

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky
ground.
——Henrik Ibsen
如果你怀疑自己，那么你的确站在不稳的地方。

——H·易卜生

We alwags have time enough, if we will but use it alright.
——Wolfgang Von Goethe
只要我们能善用时间，就永远不愁时间不够用。

——歌德

There are two motives for reading a book: one that you
enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
——Bertrand Russell
读书有两种动机：一是从中获得乐趣；另一种则是可以向人夸耀。

——罗素

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay
no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the
world talk.
——Moliere
任何人都不能免于诽谤。最好的方法是不理会，过着清白的生活，
让人们去说好了。

——莫里哀

Provide for the worst, the best will save itself.

——Thomas Heywood

为最坏的情况做准备，那么最好的情况也就会来临了。

——托马斯·海伍德
Politeness is like an air cushion: there may be nothing
in it, but it eases our jolts wonderfully.

——Samuel Johnson

礼貌就象是一只气垫：里面可能什么都没有，但却能奇妙地减轻颠簸。

—— 塞缪尔·约翰逊

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