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"Run after a shadow" nghĩa là gì?
28 Jan, 2016
Chase your shadow. Photo courtesy Z S.
'Run after a shadow' nghĩa là bắt bóng, theo đuổi một vật vô hình.
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Never run after a shadow no matter how big it appears because it vanishes when light drowns.
Sir Isaac Newton was naturally of a peaceable disposition, and passionately fond of his quiet. He would have rather chose to have lain in obscurity, than to have seen the calm of his life disturb'd by the wranglings and disputes, which are the certain consequences of being eminent. We learn from one of his Letters in the Commercium Epistolicum, that when his Treatise of Opticks was ready for the Press, certain hasty objections, which had been rais'd against it, made him lay aside the design for that time. I blam'd my imprudence, says he, for parting with so valuable a blessing as my quiet, to run after a shadow. But that shadow did not afterwards escape him, nor did it cost him the quiet he so much valued, but prov'd as real an happiness as the quiet itself.
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