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«Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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Among the, Among the Living, assume, comfort, difficulty, otherwise, quiet, Quiet Life, remains, sadness, seeks, untroubled
«A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.»
«Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.»
Author: Sir Thomas Beecham
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
difficulty, ear, facility, leaves, magical, memory, penetrated, penetrates, The Ear
«It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.»
Author: Andre Gide
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angle, angles, angling, approached, difficulty, obliquely, overcomes, plug, plugging, plug away, plug in, sticking
«Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
| About:
Joy,
Risk-taking
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adding, boundary, boundary line, conquering, difficulty, give back, Give Me Liberty, line, one line, pushing, push back
«In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Government
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administered, administering, administers, difficulty, enable, framing, governed, oblige
«Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
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as many, difficulty, divide, feasible, parts, resolve
«A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Optimism,
Positive thinking
| Keywords:
difficulty, every, opportunity, optimist, pessimist, Pessimists, sees
«In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
difficulty, In the, in the middle, lay out, lies, middle, middles, Middle way, opportunity
«It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| Keywords:
difficulty, extremely, nay, nays, objections, oration, orations, produce, raise, troublesome
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