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1.很多生活中的失败是因为人们在放弃的时候不知道他们离成功已经有多么近了。
                
——爱迪生

1.Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
                            ( Thomas Alva Edison )

2.一开始做一些必要做的事情;接着做有可能的事情;然后你就会突然发现自己正在做不可能的事情。
      ——圣弗朗西斯   

2.Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.  
                            (St. Francis of Assisi)

3.上帝赐予我在接受我不能改变的事情时的宁静,赐予我改变我能够驾驭的事物时的勇气,还赐予我判别这两者差别的智慧。
          ——
圣弗朗西斯

3.Lord grant me the serenity to accept the thing I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
            (St. Francis of Assisi)

4.除了认为自己是个普通人这一事实这外,找认为自己是个普通的人。 ——来歇尔·德·蒙田

4.I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

5.生活像一头洋葱:你只能一层一层地把它剥开,有时你还得流泪。
          ——
卡尔·桑德堡

5.Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
(Carl Sandburg)

6.礼貌像只气垫:里面可能什么也没有,但是却能奇妙地减少颠簸。
——萨缪尔·约翰逊

6.Politeness is like an air cushion: There may be nothing in it, but it eases our jolts wonderfully.
(Samuel Johnson) 

7.那些放弃基本的自由来换取少许暂时的安全的人既不配获得自由也不配获得安全。
         ——本雅明·富兰克林

7.They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
                     (Benjamin Franklin)

8.对所有的人礼貌,对许多人应酬,同少数人熟悉,与一个人交友,不要与任何人为敌。
   ——本雅明·富兰克林

8.Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
(Benjamin Franklin)

9.从来没有好的战争,也从来没有坏的和平。
   ——本雅明·富兰克林

9.There never was a good war, or a bad peace.
                            (Benjamin Franklin)

10.有两样东西是无限的:宇宙和人的愚蠢;我对前者知之不多。——爱因斯坦

10.Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
                             (Albert Einstein)

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