我不让意见影响我，我让它们启发我。

解释：阻塞老百姓的嘴，好比阻塞河水。河流如果堵塞后一旦再决堤，伤人一定很多，人民也是这样。不可堵塞民众的言论，不给他们发表自己想法的机会。如这样去做，将比堵塞江河带来的后果更严重。

She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

你不能仅仅因为情况不理想就放弃某人。