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拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生《随笔》· Essays · 健康 · 投资 · 财富 · 认知
Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions has the richest return of wisdom. I will not shut myself out of this globe of action, and transplant an oak into a flower-pot, there to hunger and pine; nor trust the revenue of some single faculty, and exhaust one vein of thought, much like those Savoyards,[51] who, getting their livelihood by carving shepherds, shepherdesses, and smoking Dutchmen, for all Europe, went out one day to the mountain to find stock, and discovered that they had whittled up the last of their pine-trees. Authors we have, in numbers, who have written out their vein, and who, moved by a commendable prudence, sail for Greece or Palestine, follow the trapper into the prairie, or ramble round Algiers, to replenish their merchantable stock.
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定位:Excerpt 12 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
白话
爱默生说,谁在合适的行动中使出全部力量,谁得到的智慧就最丰厚。他不愿把自己关在行动世界之外,像把橡树种进花盆,让它挨饿枯萎;也不愿只靠一种才能吃饭,把一条思想矿脉挖干。他举萨伏依人做例子:靠雕刻牧羊人、牧羊女和抽烟的荷兰人卖遍欧洲,有一天上山找材料,才发现最后一棵松树已被削光。不少作家也这样,写干了自己的矿脉,便去希腊、巴勒斯坦、草原或阿尔及尔找新货。
上下文
出自爱默生《随笔集》中《论美国学者》。他用萨伏依工匠的轶事讽刺只消耗单一才能、不补充生活的人。
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你正在消耗的才能,有没有新的生活经验在补充它?
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