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Letter "D" » difficulty
«We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.»
«The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.»
Author: Samuel Smiles
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at length, difficulty, discoveries, established, hardship, inventions, length, nurtured, pondered, pondering, ponders
«Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty»
«To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.»
«The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.»
Author: Samuel Smiles
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difficulty, exhausted, inspired, reached, shore, struggled, tide, trial
«Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Simplicity,
Work
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«To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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