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成功与失败Success/Failure[英语名人名言]

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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

-- Maya Angelou

There are trivial¹ truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

-- Neils Bohr

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound² truth may well be another profound truth.

-- Niels Bohr

Destiny³ is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived.

-- William Jennings Bryant

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

-- Francis Crawford

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

-- Josephus Daniels

... I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

-- Thomas Edison

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

-- Albert Einstein

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

-- Henry Ford⁴

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

-- Robert G. Ingersoll

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

-- James Joyce

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

-- Abraham Lincoln

The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter⁵ us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

-- Abraham Lincoln

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

-- Orison Swett Marden

No other success can compensate⁶ for failure in the home.

-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia⁷ of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964

What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

-- Robert Schuller

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?

-- Robert Schuller

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed⁸ if you don't try.

-- Beverly Sills

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.

-- Sydney Smith

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered⁹ by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise¹⁰. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

-- Arnold Toynbee

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters¹¹.

-- Abigail Van Buren

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

-- Gore¹² Vidal

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

-- George E. Woodberry

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1 trivial
adj.琐碎的，不重要的，无价值的
参考例句：
Be patient.Don't lose your temper over trivial matters.忍着点，别为了一点小事发火。 It's useless to fire away with such trivial details.喋喋不休地谈这些琐碎细节是无用的。

2 profound
adj.深奥的，造诣深的；深度的，极度的
参考例句：
I give you my profound thanks for saving my life.我对您的救命之恩深表谢意。 He has a profound knowledge of mathematics.他数学知识渊博。

3 destiny
n.命运，定数，天命
参考例句：
Nobody knows his own destiny.没有人知道自己的命运。 It was her destiny to become famous.她命里注定出名。

4 Ford
n.浅滩，水浅可涉处；v.涉水，涉过
参考例句：
They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上，所以我们只能涉水过河。 If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪，必须极度小心。

5 deter
vt.阻止，使不敢，吓住
参考例句：
Failure did not deter us from trying it again.失败并没有能阻挡我们再次进行试验。 Dogs can deter unwelcome intruders.狗能够阻拦不受欢迎的闯入者。

6 compensate
vt.补偿，赔偿；酬报 vi.弥补；补偿；抵消
参考例句：
She used her good looks to compensate her lack of intelligence. 她利用她漂亮的外表来弥补智力的不足。 Nothing can compensate for the loss of one's health. 一个人失去了键康是不可弥补的。

7 encyclopedia
n.百科全书
参考例句：
The encyclopedia fell to the floor with a thud.那本百科全书砰的一声掉到地上。 Geoff is a walking encyclopedia.He knows about everything.杰夫是个活百科全书，他什么都懂。

8 doomed
命定的
参考例句：
The court doomed the accused to a long term of imprisonment. 法庭判处被告长期监禁。 A country ruled by an iron hand is doomed to suffer. 被铁腕人物统治的国家定会遭受不幸的。

9 embittered
v.使怨恨，激怒( embitter的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
These injustices embittered her even more. 不公平使她更加受苦。来自《简明英汉词典》 The artist was embittered by public neglect. 大众的忽视于那位艺术家更加难受。来自《简明英汉词典》

10 paradise
n.伊甸乐园，天堂
参考例句：
My house had a small backyard,the paradise of children.我那幢房子有一个小后院，那是孩子们玩耍的乐园。 On a hot day a dip in the sea is sheer paradise.热天洗个海水澡是十分令人惬意的事。

11 blisters
n.水疱( blister的名词复数 )；水肿；气泡
参考例句：
My new shoes have made blisters on my heels. 我的新鞋把我的脚跟磨起泡了。来自《现代汉英综合大词典》 His new shoes raised blisters on his feet. 他的新鞋把他的脚磨起了水疱。来自《简明英汉词典》

12 gore
n.凝血，血污；v.（动物）用角撞伤，用牙刺破；缝以补裆；顶
参考例句：
The fox lay dying in a pool of gore.狐狸倒在血泊中奄奄一息。 Carruthers had been gored by a rhinoceros.卡拉瑟斯被犀牛顶伤了。

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