雙語散文:完美的人生
完美的人生
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals-this alone is worth the struggle.
There can be no Friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosure.
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
Death it but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
堅信過，嘗試過，爲自己確定的理想努力過——就不枉此番奮鬥！
沒有自由就沒有友誼。友誼需要自由，不只是限定在狹小的圈子裏。
我們要對上帝臣服，更要對獨裁者反抗。
如同信念一樣，忍耐和勤奮同樣可以金石爲開。
好的方法不僅僅能減少麻煩，它能將事情變的容易，它能掃清疑惑，它能節省時間，它能教導那些有想法的人，告訴他們如何去寄予希望，如何去實施。
公平是我們財富及生活的保險，忠實及順從則是我們所付的保險費。
如果我有機會表達我的善心，展示我的善舉，我會馬上實施，不帶任何的遲疑，因爲我以後可能再也沒有這樣的機會了。
死亡僅僅是世界的穿梭——如同朋友穿越海洋一樣——他們在另外的世界裏依然永存。
