Quotes: difficult
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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
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It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
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'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.
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A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.
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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
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A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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John Berger
English art critic, novelist, painter and poet
1926-2017
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
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