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All things in their being are good for something.
天生我才必有用。
12.1
Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.
生活只是由一系列下决心的努力所构成。
12.2
To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.
生活是一种人人须学而无人能教的艺术。
12.3
Live not to eat, but eat to live.
活着不是为了吃，吃只是为了活着。
12.4
The unexamined life is not worth living.
浑浑噩噩的生活不值得过。
12.5
Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
生活就像洋葱头：你只能一层一层地把它剥开,而且有时你还会流泪。
12.6
Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing well those you hold.
生活不在于握有一手好牌,而在于把手里的牌打好。
12.7
You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.
你并不掌管整个宇宙,但你得掌管你自己。
12.8
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
生活中最大的幸福是确信有人爱我们。
12.9
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
人生重要的是确立一个伟大的目标，并下决心使其实现。
12.10
We are not born for ourselves.
人之有生，不为一己。
12.11
I want to bring out the secrets of nature and apply them for the happiness of man.
I don't know of any better service to offer for the short time we are in the world.
我想揭示大自然的秘密，用来造福人类。
我认为，在我们的短暂一生中，最好的贡献莫过于此了。
12.12
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
卓越的天才不屑走旁人走过的路。他寻找迄今未开拓的地区。
12.13
Man can only be free through mastery of himself.
只有通过掌握自己，才能使自己得到解放。
12.14
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
只有向后看才能理解生活；只有向前看才能过好生活。
12.15
Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
不要害怕你的生活将要结束，应该担心你的生活永远不会真正开始。
12.16
We are here to add what we can, not to get what we can.
我们来到世上是为了尽自己所能地添砖加瓦，而不是肆意掠夺。
12.17
Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it.
生活有百分之十在于你如何塑造它，有百分之九十在于你如何对待它。
12.18
The great use of life is to spend it for some thing that overlasts it.
生命的最大用处是将它用于比生命更长久的事物上。
12.19
Better do more daily, trivial, ordinary and practical work that is needed by the people, than say a thousand empty words that may be sweet to the ear.
多做一些人民需要的，日常的，细小的，平凡而实际的工作,胜过说一千句漂亮动听的话语。
12.20
Life is measured by thought and action, not by time.
衡量生命的尺度是思想和行为，而不是时间。
12.21
Young people must equip themselves for life's duties and guard against its temptations.
年轻人必须为履行生活所赋予他们的职责而充实自己，同时要抵制生活的诱惑。
12.22
Ideals are like the stars--we never reach them, but like mariners, we chart our course by them.
理想就像是星星--我们永远够不着它们，但是我们像水手一样，用它们指引航程。
12.23
Hopeless grief is passionless.
没有希望的悲伤是没有感情的。
12.24
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
希望是美好的早餐，却是糟糕的晚餐。
12.25
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
机会是个没有意义的词；任何事物都不会无缘无故地存在。
12.26
He who has never hoped can never despair.
从来没有抱过什么希望的人也永远不会失望。
12.27
Hope is bad for the happy man, and good for the unhappy.
希望对幸福的人是不好的事，对不幸福的人是好事。
12.28
Chance generally favors the prudent.
运气通常青睐深思熟虑者。
12.29
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
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。
12.30
Popularity? It's glory's small change.
名望吗？那不过是光荣的零头。
12.31
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