句句箴言(中英對照)(二)

Difficulties mastered are opportunities own.
當困難克服就會出現良機

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
想像力比知識更為重要

Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceal it.
苦難顯才華，好運隱天資

Time and industry produce every day new knowledge.
時間和勤勉每日產生新知識

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
高雅的態度是由許多小小的犧牲所形成的

Character needs not only joy but trial and difficulty to mellow it.
人格陶冶不僅需要歡樂，也需要考驗和困難

Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation.
從希望中得到歡樂，在苦難中保吃堅韌

To half-do anything make a failure of it.
任何事半途而廢就市失敗

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
我們唯一畏懼的東西就是畏懼本身

An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
一日之計在於晨

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
書籍如朋友，不在多而在精

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss.
生活的悲劇不在於人們受到多少苦，而在於人們錯過了什麼

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
『麻煩』只是穿上工作服的『機會』

Dexterity comes by experience.
熟練來自於經驗

Kind hearts are more than coronets.
善良的心靈勝過顯貴的地位

A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight.
委大的詩篇即是永遠噴出智慧和歡欣之水的噴泉

Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast.
音樂有安撫兇暴心靈的魅力

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much are three pillars of learning.
多看、多作、多研究 是學習的三大法則

A picture is a poem without words.
圖畫是沒有文字的詩歌

Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.
知足是天賦的財富；奢侈造成人為的貧窮