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Book of Wise Sayings
지혜의 말씀 책
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Book of Wise Sayings is a work by W. A. Clouston. In ReadGem you can read the English original beside a translation in your own language, one sentence at a time.
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“"Concise sentences, like darts, fly abroad and make impressions, while long discourses are tedious and not regarded."--BACON.”
Book of Wise Sayings · W. A. Clouston
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The English original with a Korean translation, one sentence at a time. In the app you can pick from 20 languages.
Cynics may ask, how many have profited by the innumerable proverbs and maxims of prudence which have been current in the world time out of mind?
냉소주의자들은 이렇게 물을지도 모릅니다. 세상에 아주 오래전부터 전해져 내려온 수많은 속담과 격언으로 얼마나 많은 사람들이 이득을 보았습니까?
They will say that their only use is to repeat them after some unhappy wight has "gone wrong."
그들은 그것들의 유일한 용도는 불행한 사람이 "잘못을 저지른" 후에 그것들을 반복하는 것이라고 말할 것입니다.
When, for instance, a man has played "ducks and drakes" with his money, the fact at once calls up the proverb which declares that "wilful waste leads to woful want"; but did not the "waster" know this well-worn saying from his early years downwards?
예를 들어 어떤 사람이 돈을 가지고 "고의적인 낭비는 비참한 궁핍을 초래한다"는 속담이 즉시 떠오릅니다. 그러나 그 "낭비하는 자"는 어려서부터 이 흔한 말을 알지 못했습니까?
What good, then, did it do him?
그렇다면 그것이 그에게 무슨 소용이 있었겠습니까?
Again, how many have been benefited by the saying of the ancient Greek poet, that "evil communications corrupt good manners"?--albeit they had it frequently before them in their school "copy-books."
또 얼마나 많은 사람들이 고대 그리스 시인의 "악한 교제는 좋은 예절을 망친다"라는 말에서 유익을 얻었습니까? 비록 그들이 학교 공책에서 이 말을 자주 접했음에도 말입니다.
Are the maxims of morality useless, then, because they are so much disregarded?
그렇다면 도덕률들이 그토록 무시되기 때문에 쓸모없는 것입니까?
When a man has reached middle-age he generally feels with tenfold force the truth of those "sayings of the wise" which he learned in his early years, and has cause to regret, as well as wonder, that he had not all along followed their wholesome teaching.
사람이 중년에 이르면 일반적으로 젊은 시절에 배웠던 "현자들의 말씀"의 진실을 열 배나 더 강하게 느끼게 되며, 왜 진작에 그들의 유익한 가르침을 따르지 않았는지 후회하고 놀라워하게 됩니다.
For it is to the young, who are about to cross the threshold of active life, that such terse convincing sentences are more especially addressed, and, spite of the proverbial heedlessness of youth, there will be found many who are not deaf to this kind of instruction, if their moral environment be favourable.
이러한 간결하고 설득력 있는 문장은 특히 활동적인 삶의 문턱을 넘으려 하는 젊은이들에게 더욱 드리는 말씀이며, 젊은이들의 속담에 나오는 부주의함에도 불구하고 도덕적 환경이 우호적이라면 이러한 가르침에 귀 기울이는 사람들이 많을 것입니다.
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Book details
- Title
- Book of Wise Sayings (지혜의 말씀 책)
- Author
- W. A. Clouston
- Original language
- English
- Translations in app
- 20 languages
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