If you have ambition, you will never be content with the bottom; With knowledge, you will know that knowledge is endless; Nothing can't be broken as long as you have perseverance.
This sentence comes from the Complete Works of Zeng Guofan, a politician, strategist, philosopher, writer, calligrapher and founder and commander-in-chief of Xiang Army in China in the late Qing Dynasty.
Zeng Guofan is not only a "perfect man through the ages" and a "model of officialdom", but also one of the people who left the most words in the history of China. Do business like Hu Xueyan, and be an official like Zeng Guofan.
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Original text:
When reading, Gai scholars should be ambitious, knowledgeable and persistent. Aspiring and unwilling to be indecent; If you have knowledge, you know that knowledge is infinite, and you dare not sell yourself short. Such as Hebo watching the sea, such as a well frog peeping into the sky, no one knows; Nothing is impossible if you have perseverance. These three are indispensable.
Translation:
Intellectuals should have ambition, knowledge and perseverance in reading. If you are ambitious, you will never be content with the bottom. If you have knowledge, you know that knowledge is endless and you dare not be satisfied with a little income;
For example, it is ignorance to look at the sea with Hebo's eyes and peep at the sky with frogs in the well. Nothing is impossible as long as you have perseverance. These three aspects are indispensable.