Richard SharpРичард Шарп
1 passageотрывков: 1
Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.
5. Главный секрет для сохранения веселости в том, чтобы не позволять пустякам тревожить нас и вместе с тем ценить те маленькие удовольствия, которые выпадают нам на долю.
5. The chief secret of keeping cheerful is not to let trifles trouble us and at the same time to value the small pleasures that fall to our lot.
From Character · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
What changed“The chief secret of comfort” becomes “the chief secret of keeping cheerful,” and “prudently cultivating an undergrowth of small pleasures” becomes valuing “the small pleasures that fall to our lot”; Sharp’s small evils “like invisible insects” are left out. †
† An intermediate translation may have made this change.
Smiles’s own words"Though sometimes small evils," says Richard Sharp, "like invisible insects, inflict great pain, and a single hair may stop a vast machine, yet the chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us; and in prudently cultivating an undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases."
Source text: gutenberg.orgTolstoy’s own version · Мысли мудрых людей на каждый деньГлавный секрет для сохранения веселости заключается в уменьи не позволять пустякам тревожить нас, а также и в том, чтобы не пренебрегать и маленькими удовольствиями, выпадающими нам на долю.
Source text: tolstoy.ruDetails
The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Character (1871), ch. VIII 'Temper', quoting Richard Sharp, Ch. VIII, after 'life becomes like a journey barefooted amongst thorns and briers and prickles'.
The words are Richard Sharp's (1759–1835), which Smiles quotes under Sharp's name; Sharp's own Letters and Essays in Prose and Verse (1834) was not checked. 'the chief secret of comfort' becomes 'the main secret for keeping cheerful' (для сохранения веселости); 'not suffering trifles to vex us' is kept; 'prudently cultivating an undergrowth of small pleasures' becomes 'valuing the small pleasures that fall to our lot' (ценить те маленькие удовольствия, которые выпадают нам на долю). Sharp's opening ('Though sometimes small evils … may stop a vast machine') and his reason ('since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases') are left out. Thoughts of Wise Men (1903) has the thought on 4 May, already with 'cheerfulness'; the Circle makes its 'not to neglect' (не пренебрегать) 'to value'. The Jubilee commentary on that book (vol. 40) says its Smiles came from the «Иллюстрированный настольный календарь т-ва «Просвещение» на 1902 год», a Russian desk calendar, not found, so 'cheerfulness' may be the calendar's. Tolstoy's attribution follows Smiles's book, where the words stand; Sharp is the author.
Translation note. Samuel Smiles (1812–1904), the Scottish writer of Self-Help.