Friday, April 13, 2012

No Pain, No Gain


Sages say “no pain, no gain.” Pearls or precious things cannot be easily found in any field without effort. In the prologue of All for Love (1678), a play by John Dryden, there is a similar viewpoint written of this subject in other words:
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
間違いは藁のように表層に流れている。
真珠を探そうとする者は深く潜らねばならない。




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