【每天读一点英文】gnuhpc注释版：The True Nobility

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海明威认为，人生并非只有阳光和快乐，经历失去与得到的起伏才是完整的人生。内心的严肃与生活的简单相辅相成。在面对生活的挑战时，性格、判断力和自律比智力更重要。真正的悔悟是不再重复错误，真正的高贵是不断超越自我。

By Ernest Hemingway

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not life at all. Take the lot of the happiest — it is a tangled yarn. Bereavements （bereavement [be'reave·ment || -mənt] n. 丧亲; 丧友）and blessings, one following another, make us sad and blessed by turns. Even death itself makes life more loving. Men come closest to their true selves in the sober moments of life, under the shadows of sorry and loss.

In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as self-control, patience, and discipline, regulated by judgment.

I have always believed that the man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. In an age of extravagance and waste, I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are.

To regret one’s erro