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塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯：自助论·摘录 103
塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯《自助论》· Self-Help · 领导
The lives of eminent inventors are eminently illustrative of the same quality of perseverance. George Stephenson, when addressing young men, was accustomed to sum up his best advice to them, in the words, “Do as I have done—persevere.” He had worked at the improvement of his locomotive for some fifteen years before achieving his decisive victory at Rainhill; and Watt was engaged for some thirty years upon the condensing-engine before he brought it to perfection. But there are equally striking illustrations of perseverance to be found in every other branch of science, art, and industry. Perhaps one of the most interesting is that connected with the disentombment of the Nineveh marbles, and the discovery of the long-lost cuneiform or arrow-headed character in which the inscriptions on them are written—a kind of writing which had been lost to the world since the period of the Macedonian conquest of Persia.
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杰出发明家的生平充分说明了毅力的品质。乔治·斯蒂芬森对年轻人总结他的最佳建议是：“做我所做的——坚持。”他改进机车约十五年，才在 Rainhill 取得决定性胜利；瓦特研究冷凝引擎约三十年才使其完美。科学、艺术和工业的每个分支都有同样突出的毅力例证。或许最有趣的是与尼尼微大理石发掘以及失传的楔形文字发现相关的例子——这种文字自马其顿征服波斯以来就失传了。
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斯迈尔斯在《自助》中通过发明家的故事强调坚持的重要性。
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你正在坚持的事情，是否愿意投入五年、十年甚至更长时间？
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