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"There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty."	Epictetus
"Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil."	Epictetus
"The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."	Epicurus
"Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead."	Emmet Fox
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."	Benjamin Franklin
"All things are difficult before they are easy."	Dr. Thomas Fuller
"Josh Billings said, "It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems."	John W(illiam) Gardner
"The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, bu"	Jose Ortega y Gasset
"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people. Nor for others, easier."	Baltasar Gracian
"These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder." (describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial)"	Jeff Greenfield
"Any activity that adversely affects society is immoral."	B. J. Gupta
"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."	Alexander Hamilton
"I think when you go on trial they should have a parrot there that says guilty or not guilty for you, as a sort of courtesy."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."	Stephen William Hawking
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."	William Hazlitt
"Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure."	Joseph Heller
"Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit."	Napolean Hill
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Abraham Lincoln	Aesop	Albert Einstein
Aldous Leonard Huxley	Alexander Hamilton	Alfred A. Montapert
Ambrose Bierce	Anandabai Joshee	André Maurois
Anne Dudley Bradstreet	Antoine Laurent Lavoisier	Arthur Koestler
Author Unknown	Baltasar Gracian	Benjamin Franklin
Buddha	B. J. Gupta	Carl Gustav Jung
Charles Caleb Colton	Charlotte Bronte	Chilo
Churton Collins	Confucius	Daisaku Ikeda
Dr. Joyce	Dr. Samuel Johnson	Dr. Thomas Fuller
Dwight David Eisenhower	Edmund Burke	Edward C. Banfield
Edward R(oscoe) Murrow	Eli Khamarov	Emmet Fox
Epictetus	Epicurus	E. R. Bulwer-Lytton
Frederick Douglass	General Charles De Gaulle	George Eliot
George Moore	George Stanley McGovern	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Helen Adams Keller	Henri-Frédéric Amiel	Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Peter Brougham	Homer	Honoré de Balzac
Horace	Horace Mann	Isak Dinesen
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	Jeff Greenfield
Jim	Joe Moore	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Maynard Keynes	John Norley
John Quincy Adams	John W(illiam) Gardner	Joseph Heller
Jose Ortega y Gasset	Josh Billings	Kahlil Gibran
Laertius Diogenes	Lee C. Bollinger	Louis
Lyndon Baines Johnson	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo	Marquise du Deffand
Matthew Arnold	Michael Leuning	Miguel de Cervantes
Nadia Boulanger	Napolean Hill	Niccolo Machiavelli
Nikos Kazantzakis	Og Mandino	Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oscar Wilde	Phyllis Bottome	Phyllis McGinley
Proverbs 17:17 Bible	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Rene Descartes
Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robert Frost	Robert Fulghum
Robyn Davidson	Roger Bannister	Roger John
Ryszard Kapuscinski	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Sophia Loren	Stephen William Hawking	Søren Aaby Kierkegaard
Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Alva Edison
Walter Anderson	Walt(er) Elias Disney	Warren G. Bennis
William Hazlitt	William Shakespeare	William Cullen Bryant
William Ellery Channing	Wystan Hugh Auden	(Arthur) Clive