204.舉輕若重,且舉重若輕
舉輕若重,且舉重若輕。前者可以避免疏忽大意,后者可避免喪失信心。自以為一件事已經(jīng)完成,它便永遠(yuǎn)無(wú)法完成。另一方面,勤奮且有耐心,可以攻克看似不可能的事情。想要成就大事,不必過(guò)分思慮,以免知難而退。
204.Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy: In one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed. For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think it done. On the other hand, patient industry overcomes impossibilities. Great undertakings are not to be brooded over, lest their difficulty when seen causes despair.