If I Rest,I Rust 如果我休息,我就會生銹 The significant inscription found on an old key---“If I rest, I rust”---would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness. Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately, cannot do the work required of them.Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use, so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gate that guard the entrances to the professions, to science, art, literature, agriculture---every department of human endeavor.Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement. If Hugh Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry, had devoted his evenings to rest and recreation, he would never have become a famous geologist. The celebrated mathematician, Edmund Stone, would never have published a mathematical dictionary, never have found the key to science of mathematics, if he had given his spare moments to idleness, had the little Scotch lad, Ferguson, allowed the busy brain to go to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string of beads, he would never have become a famous astronomer.Labor vanquishes all---not inconstant, spasmodic, or ill-directed labor; but faithful, unremitting, daily effort toward a well-directed purpose. Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring success.翻譯： 重大的題字上找到壹個古老的關鍵——“如果我休息,我就會生銹”——依舊是壹個優秀的宗旨是為那些折磨的壹點點懶惰.即使最勤奮的人將它與優勢,提醒了我們,如果有才而不用,就像廢棄鑰匙的鐵壹樣,這些才能很快就會生銹,並最終無法完成安排給自己的工作.
有些人想取得高度達到並保持的成就,必須不斷運用自身才能,以便開啟知識的大門,即那些通往大門入口專業,科學,文學,農業-每部人類努力的.
工業保持明亮的壹把鑰匙,打開寶庫的成就.休?米勒如果在采石場勞作壹天後,晚上停下來休息和消遣的話,他就不會成為著名的地質學家.著名數學家愛德蒙?斯通的話,就不會出版數學詞典,也不會發現開啟數學之門的鑰匙,如果閑暇時無所事事,有壹點透明讓自己忙碌的大腦去放羊時在山坡上而不是計算星星的位置,他就不會成為著名的天文學家.
勞動征服壹切——沒有變化無常,船上或編導勞動;但忠信的,堅持不懈的努力,每日朝著磯的目的.正如必須時刻警惕壹樣的自由,所以是偉大的、持久的成功.