Lafcadio Hearn
"There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny."
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"There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny."
"هناك نمط واحد من المرأة المثالية قلما يوصف في الشعر: العانس، تلك التي حالت الأحزان أو سوء الطالع دون تحقيق قدرها الطبيعي."
Lafcadio Hearn
"For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete."
"لهذا السبب، فإن دراسة الأدب الإنجليزي دون إلم"
Lafcadio Hearn
"A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind."
"كثيرٌ من الأمور التي حسبناها خرافيةً أو عديمةَ الجدوى في أزمنةٍ قلَّ فيها العلم، يثبتُ اليومَ بالبحثِ أنها كانت ذاتَ قيمةٍ عظيمةٍ للبشرية."
Lafcadio Hearn
"But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved."
"ولكن، ما هي سعادة مجرد القوة في نهاية المطاف؟ هناك سعادة أعظم ممكنة من أن تكون سيد السماوات والأرض، إنها سعادة أن تكون محبوبًا حقًا."
Lafcadio Hearn
"It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality."
Lafcadio Hearn
"The poet or the story-teller who cannot give the reader a little ghostly pleasure at times never can be either a really great writer or a great thinker."
Lafcadio Hearn
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