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[英文]:Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
[中文]:我们最值得自豪的不在于从不跌倒,而在于每次跌倒之后都爬起来.
[出处]:O.Goldsmith \ 戈德史密斯

[英文]:Popularity?It's glory's small change.
[中文]:名望吗?那不过是光荣的零头.
[出处]:V.Hugo 雨果

[英文]:There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.
[中文]:只有一种成功,那就是能够用自己的方式度过自己的一生.
[出处]:C.Morley 莫利

[英文]:It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
[中文]:光勤劳是不够的,蚂蚁也是勤劳的.要看你为什么而勤劳.
[出处]:H.D.Thoreau 梭罗

[英文]:Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
[中文]:人类生存的最大魔法,是从稍纵即逝的事物中攫取永恒.
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[英文]:We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
[中文]:我们必须接受失望,因为它是有限的,但千万不可失去希望,因为它是无穷的.
[出处]:Martin Luther King.Jr. 马丁.路德.金

[英文]:Fierce-browed, I coolly defy a thousand pointing fingers; head bowed, like a willing ox I serve the children.
[中文]:横眉冷对千夫指,俯首甘为孺子牛.
[出处]:Lu Xun 鲁迅

[英文]:Take little, but give(or offer)much.
[中文]:应少索取,而多奉献.
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[英文]:The cow eats grass but gives milk.
[中文]:牛吃的是草,挤出来的是奶.
[出处]:Lu Xun 鲁迅

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[英文]:A man's life is limited, but there is no limit to serving the people. I will dedicate my limited life to the limitless job of serving the people.
[中文]:人的生命是有限的,可是,为人民服务是无限的,我要把有限的生命,投入到无限的为人民服务之中去......
[出处]:LeiFeng雷锋

[英文]:You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success.
[中文]:人必须相信自已,这是成功的秘诀.
[出处]:Charles Chaplin查理.卓别林

[英文]:Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any thing.
[中文]:永远记住:你争取成功的决心才是头等重要的.
[出处]:Abraham Lincoln亚伯拉罕.林肯

[英文]:Even a small star shines in the darkness.
[中文]:星星再小,也会发光.
[出处]:芬兰谚语

[英文]:Be concerned about the affairs of state before others, and enjoy comfort after others. Be the first to feel concern about state affairs and the last to enjoy yourself.
[中文]:先天下之忧,后天下之乐而乐.
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[英文]:Give me liberty or give me death.
[中文]:不自由,毋宁死.
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[英文]:Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom.
[中文]:没有什么比独立自由更可宝贵的了.
[出处]:( 越南)Ho Chi Minh胡志明

[英文]:Who loses liberty loses all.
[中文]:失掉自由使失掉一切.
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[英文]:Lean liberty is better than fat slavery.
[中文]:宁自由而贫困,毋奴于人而富足.
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[英文]:Only the selfless can be fearless.
[中文]:无私才能无畏.
[出处]:中国谚语

[英文]:No man is so old, but thinks he may yet live another year.
[中文]:人活百年不嫌多.
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[英文]:To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
[中文]:活在生者的心里,就是不死.
[出处]:T.Campbell坎贝尔

[英文]:You should, like a candle, burn yourself out to give light to others.
[中文]:要像蜡烛一样燃烧自已,照亮别人.
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[英文]:He devoted himself entirely to the service off the people until his death. /Give one's all till one's heart stops beating.
[中文]:鞠躬尽瘁,死而后已.
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[英文]:The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.
[中文]:人生在世的首要大事是保持灵魂的高尚.
[出处]:(法)Flaubert福楼拜

[英文]:Business before pleasure.
[中文]:先工作,后娱乐. /干完正事再玩儿.
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[英文]:Be sure before you marry of a house where in to tarry.
[中文]:先立业,后成家.
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[英文]:I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
[中文]:我不缅怀过去的历史,而致力于未来的梦想.
[出处]:T.Jefferson杰弗逊(美国第3任总统)

[英文]:I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
[中文]:我不害怕明天,因为我见过昨天,又热爱今天.
[出处]:W.A.White怀特美国记者)

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[英文]:Hope well and have well.
[中文]:善寄希望于未来,又善保有现在.
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[英文]:Achievement provides the only real pleasure in life.
[中文]:有所成就乃是人生唯一的真正乐趣.
[出处]:T.Edison爱迪生

[英文]:The world is his who enjoys it.
[中文]:世界属于热爱世界的人.
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[英文]:Establishing goals is all right if your don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
[中文]:不妨订立目标,只要你不让它阻挡你兜有趣的圈子.
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[英文]:What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
[中文]:因循蹉跎,一事无成.
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[英文]:Little things please little minds.
[中文]:小事满足小志者. /胸无大志,事事称心.
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[英文]:A penny soul never came to two penny.
[中文]:志小者成不了大事. /心胸狭窄,一事无成.
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[英文]:The world is a ladder for some to go up and some down.
[中文]:世事如长梯,有人上来有人下.
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[英文]:The horizon of life is broadened chiefly by the enlargement off the heart.
[中文]:生活的地平线是随着心灵的开阔而变宽广的.
[出处]:H.Black布莱克

[英文]:Nothing seek, nothing find.
[中文]:无所求则无所获.
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[英文]:Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.
[中文]:幸福是太多和太少之间的一站.
[出处]:C.Pollock波洛克

[英文]:Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
[中文]:对大多数人来说,他们认定自已有多幸福,就有多幸福.
[出处]:A.Lincoln林肯

[英文]:It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
[中文]:要在自身找到幸福是不容易的,要在别的地方找到幸福则是不可能的.
[出处]:A.Repplier里普利厄

[英文]:Pain past is pleasure.
[中文]:痛苦过去即欢乐.
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[英文]:Call no man happy till he dies.
[中文]:人在死以前称不上幸福.
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[英文]:We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
[中文]:正像我们无权只享受财富而不创造财富一样,我们也无权只享受幸福而不创造幸福.
[出处]:Bernard Shaw萧伯纳

[英文]:If money be not the servant, it will be the master.
[中文]:不做金钱的主人,便沦为金钱的奴隶.
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[英文]:Riches serve a wise man but commands a fool.
[中文]:聪明人使财富为自已服务,傻瓜却任它支配自已.
[出处]:P.Charron沙朗

[英文]:The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing them.
[中文]:财富对有些人只做了一件事:使他们担心会失去财富.
[出处]:A.R.Rivarol里瓦罗尔

[英文]:Few rich men own their property. The property owns them.
[中文]:没有多少富人拥有他们的财产;是财产拥有他们.
[出处]:R.G.Ingersoll英格索尔

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[英文]:Money is round. It rolls away.
[中文]:圆圆钱币,滚走容易.
[出处]:S.Aleichen阿雷钦

[英文]:All is not gain that is got into the purse.
[中文]:装进钱包里的不一定都是收益.
[出处]:L.Sterne斯特恩

[英文]:If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free;if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
[中文]:如果我们能支配财富,就会富裕而自由;如果我们听任财富支配,我们就会真正贫穷.
[出处]:E.Burke伯克

[英文]:One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
[中文]:知道想要什么,一半在于知道得到它之前必须放弃什么.
[出处]:S.Howard 霍华德

[英文]:A wise man never loses anything if he has himself.
[中文]:聪明的人只要能掌握自己,便什么也不会失去.
[出处]:[德国]Nietzche 尼采

[英文]:As good lost as found.
[中文]:有得必有失. /得失同喜.
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[英文]:Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
[中文]:有时候一个人为不花钱得到的东西付出的代价最高.
[出处]:A.Einstein 爱因斯坦

[英文]:Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace of happiness.
[中文]:金钱可以是许多东西的谷皮,却不是里面的谷粒.它能带来食物,却带不来胃口;能带来药,却带不来健康;能带来相识,却带不来友谊,能带来仆人,却带不来他们的忠心;能带来享受,却带不来幸福的宁静
[出处]:H.Ibsen 易卜生

[英文]:A money lender serves you in the present tense, lends you in the conditional mood, keeps you in the subjuctive, and ruins you in the future.
[中文]:放债的人为你服务时用现在时态,借钱给你时用条件语气,使你常处于虚拟语气之中,并于将来时态中毁掉你.
[出处]:J.Addion 艾迪生

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[英文]:No man can lose what he never had.
[中文]:一个人从来没有过的东西,他永远不会失去.
[出处]:L.Walton 沃尔顿

[英文]:The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
[中文]:要使你的钱翻一番,最保险的办法是将它折叠起来放进口袋.
[出处]:K.Hubbard 哈伯德

[英文]:You never know what is enough, unless you know what is more than enough.
[中文]:欲知何者为足够,必须先知何者为多余.
[出处]:W.Blake 布莱克

[英文]:Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.
[中文]:知识使人笑逐颜开,财富使人手舞足蹈.
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[英文]:Superfluous wealth can but superfluities only.
[中文]:多余的财富只能买来多余的东西.
[出处]:H.D.Thoreau 梭罗

[英文]:A little of everything, and nothing at all.
[中文]:什么都来一点,什么也得不到.
[出处]:Montaigne 蒙田

[英文]:He who buys what he does not want will soon want what he cannot buy.
[中文]:一个人常买不想要的东西, 很快会发现他买不起想要的东西.
[出处]:C.Colton 科尔顿.

[英文]:My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
[中文]:我的座右铭是:满足于一点儿,但是希望有更多.
[出处]:C.Lamb 兰姆

[英文]:The more you have, the more you want.
[中文]:拥有的愈多,想要的愈多. /越富越贪.
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[英文]:If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
[中文]:如果你有一块园地和一个图书馆,那么你就拥有了你所需要的一切.
[出处]:Cicero 西塞罗

[英文]:There are two things to aim at in life: First, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it.Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
[中文]:生活中有两个目标:首先得到你想要的东西,然后则是尽情地享受它.只有最明智的人才能做到第二步.
[出处]:L.P.Smith 史密斯

[英文]:You will never have what you like until you learn to like what you have.
[中文]:欲得到你喜欢的东西,应先学会喜欢你已有的东西.
[出处]:W.V.Goethe 歌德

[英文]:The secret of life is not to do what one likes, but to try to like what one has to do.
[中文]:生活的秘密不在于做自己喜欢做的,而在于喜欢自己不得不做的.
[出处]:D.M.Craik 克雷克

[英文]:Half the pleasure of life consists of the opportunities one has neglected.
[中文]:生活的一半乐趣由一切被忽略掉的机遇组成.
[出处]:O.W.Holmes 霍姆斯

[英文]:To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
[中文]:有些东西你想要而没有,这是幸福不可缺少的一个部分.
[出处]:B.Russell 罗素

[英文]:Something attempted, something done.
[中文]:有所尝试,就等于有所作为.
[出处]:Longfellow 朗费罗

[英文]:Let that which is lost be for God.
[中文]:失去的东西就别想它了. /失去的东西就算献给上帝了.
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[英文]:The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them.
[中文]:在这个世界上取得成功的人,都努力去寻找他们想要的机会,如果找不到时,他们就自己创造机会.
[出处]:Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳

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[英文]:Victory won't come to me unless I go to it.
[中文]:胜利是不会向我走来的,我必须自己走向胜利.
[出处]:M.Moore 穆尔

[英文]:To be or not to be: that is the question.
[中文]:生与死是至关重要的问题.
[出处]:Shakespeare Hamlet 莎士比亚{哈姆雷特}

[英文]:Life is long if you know how to use it.
[中文]:只要你善于利用它,生命就是长久的.
[出处]:Seneca 塞内加

[英文]:Everyone must die; let me but leave a loyal heart shining in the pages of history.
[中文]:人生自古谁无死,留取丹心照汗青.
[出处]:Wen Tianxiang 文天祥

[英文]:Life is for one generation, a good name is forever.
[中文]:生命只有一代之久,而美名永存于世.
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[英文]:We are such stuff as dreams are made on.
[中文]:人生如梦幻.
[出处]:Shakespeare 莎士比亚

[英文]:Conquer the fear of death and you are put into possession of your life.
[中文]:征服对死的恐惧,你就占有了生命.
[出处]:G.Meredith 梅瑞狄斯

[英文]:He that leaves a name behind him does not die.
[中文]:身后留名的人万世永存.
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[英文]:Do not try to live for ever.you will not succeed.
[中文]:不要幻想永远活下去,你不会成功的.
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[英文]:There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
[中文]:生和死都无法治,只有享受两者之间的间隔.
[出处]:G.Santayana 桑塔亚纳

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[英文]:The dead are only dead when they die in the thoughts of the living.
[中文]:没有活人思念的死人,才是真正的死了.
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[英文]:When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn to oracles.
[中文]:死亡使一个伟人的声音沉寂之后,他生前平淡无奇的话,都成了至理名言.
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[英文]:You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live now.
[中文]:你不能选择怎样死,或什么时候死.你只能决定现在怎样生活.
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[英文]:Mean men admire wealth; great men, glory.
[中文]:庸人爱财富,伟人爱荣誉.
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[英文]:It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.
[中文]:成为伟人是美好的,做一个真正的人更美好.
[出处]:W.Rogers 罗杰斯(美国幽默家)

[英文]:The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.
[中文]:判断伟人的名誉应该以他们如何得到它来衡量.
[出处]:La Rochefoucauld 拉罗什富科

[英文]:A little body does often harbour a great soul.
[中文]:伟大的心灵常寓于矮小的身躯之中.
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[英文]:Great men are rarely isolated mountainpeaks; they are the summits of ranges.
[中文]:伟人很少是突兀的山峰;他们是众山中的最高峰.
[出处]:T.W.Higginson 希金森

[英文]:There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
[中文]:有一个伟大人物使所有的人都感动渺小.但是真正伟大的人却使所有的人感到伟大.
[出处]:G.K.Chesterton 切斯特顿

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