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拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生：随笔·摘录 44
拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生《随笔》· Essays · 健康 · 人性 · 认知 · 哲学
The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable[136] admired his horns and blamed his feet, but when the hunter came, his feet saved him, and afterwards, caught in the thicket, his horns destroyed him. Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults. As no man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it, so no man has a thorough acquaintance with the hindrances or talents of men, until he has suffered from the one, and seen the triumph of the other over his own want of the same. Has he a defect of temper that unfits him to live in society? Thereby he is driven to entertain himself alone, and acquire habits of self-help; and thus, like the wounded oyster, he mends his shell with pearl.
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好人甚至得到弱点和缺陷的帮助。正如没有人有过不伤害自己的骄傲，也没有人的缺陷不曾在哪里变得有用。寓言中的雄鹿欣赏自己的角却责怪自己的脚，但猎人来了，脚救了它，后来角缠在树丛里毁了它。每个人一生中都需要感谢自己的缺点。正如没有人不经过斗争就彻底理解真理，也没有人不曾因某种障碍受苦、并看到别人的才能战胜自己的不足，才能彻底了解人的障碍或才能。他脾气有缺陷，不适合社会？因此他被驱使独自娱乐，养成自助的习惯；于是像受伤的牡蛎，用珍珠修补自己的壳。
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