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You will come to realize that you are less defined by the good things that happen to you, your moments of happiness and apparent control, than you are by those misfortunes and unexpected challenges that, in fact, shape you more definitively, and help to solidify your true character—the measure of any human value.
你会渐渐明白，决定你是谁的，与其说是发生在你身上的好事或是那些你感觉幸福、明显能够掌控的时刻，不如说是那些不幸的遭遇和意料之外的挑战。事实上，这些遭遇和挑战对于塑造你起到了更加决定性的作用，帮助你锻造真正的品质——这是衡量个人价值的标准。
The past often offers an illuminating and clear-headed perspective from which to observe and reconcile the passions of the present moment, just when they threaten to overwhelm us.
过去常常可以提供一种具有启发性、使人清醒的视角，在当下的热情将要冲昏我们的头脑之际，让我们得以审视并调和它们。
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free—honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
赋予奴隶自由，我们就确保了自由人的自由——我们所给予的和我们所坚持的同样光荣。对于地球上仅存的美好希望，我们要勇敢地拯救，不然就只能卑贱地失去。
Don't confuse success with excellence. The poet Robert Penn Warren once told me that “careerism is death.”
不要把成功和优秀混为一谈。诗人罗伯特·佩恩·沃伦曾对我说：“追名逐利就是自取灭亡。”