孤独Solitude/Self-reliance[英语名人名言]

时间：2007-05-14 06:22:33

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He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop

 

To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale

 

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory1 were, as well as if a manor2 of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls3; It tolls for thee.
-- John Donne, Meditation4 XVII

 

I live in that solitude5 which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity6.
-- Albert Einstein

 

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

 

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes

 

The one thing that doesn't abide7 by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee

 

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke

 

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins

 

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson

 

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw

 

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau

 

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf

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1 promontory dRPxo     
n.海角；岬
参考例句：
  • Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.天才是茫茫大地突出的岬角。
  • On the map that promontory looks like a nose,naughtily turned up.从地图上面，那个海角就像一只调皮地翘起来的鼻子。
2 manor d2Gy4     
n.庄园，领地
参考例句：
  • The builder of the manor house is a direct ancestor of the present owner.建造这幢庄园的人就是它现在主人的一个直系祖先。
  • I am not lord of the manor,but its lady.我并非此地的领主，而是这儿的女主人。
3 tolls 688e46effdf049725c7b7ccff16b14f3     
（缓慢而有规律的）钟声( toll的名词复数 )； 通行费； 损耗； （战争、灾难等造成的）毁坏
参考例句：
  • A man collected tolls at the gateway. 一个人在大门口收通行费。
  • The long-distance call tolls amount to quite a sum. 长途电话费数目相当可观。
4 meditation yjXyr     
n.熟虑，（尤指宗教的）默想，沉思，（pl.）冥想录
参考例句：
  • This peaceful garden lends itself to meditation.这个恬静的花园适于冥想。
  • I'm sorry to interrupt your meditation.很抱歉，我打断了你的沉思。
5 solitude xF9yw     
n. 孤独; 独居,荒僻之地,幽静的地方
参考例句：
  • People need a chance to reflect on spiritual matters in solitude. 人们需要独处的机会来反思精神上的事情。
  • They searched for a place where they could live in solitude. 他们寻找一个可以过隐居生活的地方。
6 maturity 47nzh     
n.成熟；完成；(支票、债券等)到期
参考例句：
  • These plants ought to reach maturity after five years.这些植物五年后就该长成了。
  • This is the period at which the body attains maturity.这是身体发育成熟的时期。
7 abide UfVyk     
vi.遵守；坚持；vt.忍受
参考例句：
  • You must abide by the results of your mistakes.你必须承担你的错误所造成的后果。
  • If you join the club,you have to abide by its rules.如果你参加俱乐部，你就得遵守它的规章。

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