就像我们在生活中面临大难的时候一样，如果我们当时能够“保持平和，静静相信”的话，我们的现在会过得好得多。

So it is with most of the great calamities that afflict us. If we would only "calmly rest, quietly trust, " how much better off we should be.

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如果我们的祖先声称到他们那时的程度就已经满足了，那么我们就不会有很多我们现在认为有价值的东西——而且如果他们当时能够想象得到这些东西的话，那么他们也会重视的。

If our ancestors had declared themselves thus satisfied, we would be without many things that we value-and that they would have valued too, could they have imagined them.

youdao

稍后，我们就为自己的行为而后悔，希望我们当时如果头脑足够冷静，能够慢慢地想想清楚后果那该多好。

Later, we may regret what we did, and wish we had remained cool-headed long enough to have thought more clearly and slowly about the consequences.

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