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Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations

“We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge.”

Source: Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode

“The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.”

Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

“Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1,000 miles or so. Like everything else it must be evolved gradually. The first difficulty is to get a thing that will fly at all. When this is made, a full description should be published as an aid to others. Excellence of design and workmanship will always defy competition.”

“It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty in contemplating any definite term which bears a very large proportion to the brief cycles of our petty chronicles. There are many minds that would not for an instant doubt the God of Nature to have existed from all Eternity, and would yet reject as preposterous the idea of going back a million of years in the History of His Works. Yet what is a million, or a million million, of solar revolutions to an Eternity?”

“The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people, but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic.”

People Use Nations Growth Poor Land Difficulty Management Population Dues Rage Monsters Immigration Ideology Fragile Sustainability Constructs Theoretical Population Growth Land Use

Author:Pete Wilson

“Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges, and burdens. We are immersed in a sea of persistent, worldly pressures that could destroy our happiness. Yet these very forces, if squarely faced, provide opportunity for tremendous personal growth and development. The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.”

“Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty.”

Painting Appreciate Perfection Difficulty Appreciation Intellect Melody Copies Reminders

Author:Michelangelo

“It is clear that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If someone were to hand me a book that was as simple to me as the multiplication table and say, “This is the Word of God; in it He has revealed His whole will and wisdom,” I would shake my head and say, “I cannot believe it; that is too easy to be a perfect revelation of infinite wisdom.” There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners.”

“Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not really different, in essence they are the same. This is the true understanding transmitted from Buddha to us.”

Way Feels Different Understanding Sorrow Difficulty Buddhist True Understanding

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.”

People Mean Doe Sometimes Hard Reality Inspiration Might Running Action Leadership Company Situation Inspire Difficulty Running Away Great Leader Great Leadership Hard Truths

Author:John P. Kotter

“Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.”

Wisdom Reality Love Is Capacity Bigger Difficulty Timeless Loving You Loving Yourself

Author:Jack Kornfield

“No matter how many mistakes you've made in the past, or what sort of difficulties you struggle with now, you are destined to live in victory.”

Source: Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day

“The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing.”

Art Two War Standing Difficulty Wheels Lacking Art Of War Carts Two Wheels

Author:Kuroda Nagamasa

“To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened, till the mountains of obstacles are removed, till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted, and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens-this is hard work, but it is God's work, and man's best labor.”

Men Way Feels Hard Prayer Hell Hard Work Praying Mountain Labor Difficulty Bounds Clouds Obstacles Heavy Decent Sunshine Iron Gates Delicate Strokes Mist

Book:Purpose in Prayer

Source: Purpose in Prayer

“If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don't you be bothered with him - leave him at the throne.”

Ifs Persons Individual Prayer Lord Difficulty Bother Thrones Bothered

Book:Hand Me Another Brick

Source: Hand Me Another Brick

“Do we approach God from a beggar's perspective or as His cherished child? If we have any difficulty seeing Him as our loving Father, we need to ask Him to help us develop a healthy Father/child relationship.”

Ifs Needs Children Helping Asks Father Prayer Seeing Perspective Healthy Approach Difficulty Beggar Father Child

Book:Your Daily Journey with God: 365 Daily Devotions

Source: Your Daily Journey with God: 365 Daily Devotions

“We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.”

Knows Way Needs Feels Wells Left Prayer Safe Difficulty Prerequisites

Book:Prayer

Source: Prayer

“Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field.”

Christian Religion Prayer Fields Overcoming Difficulty Workers

Book:The Evangelization of the World in this Generation

Source: The Evangelization of the World in this Generation

“In all states of dilemma or of difficulty, prayer is an available source. The ship of prayer may sail through all temptations, doubts and fears, straight up to the throne of God; and though she may be outward bound with only griefs, and groans, and sighs, she shall return freighted with a wealth of blessings!”

May States Wealth Prayer Grief Doubt Source Return Blessing Difficulty Bounds Available Ships Temptation Sail Thrones Sigh Dilemma Straight Up Doubt And Fear All State Outward Bound

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.”

Remember Challenges Memories Business Technology Clear Cost Advantage Performances Difficulty Core Magnetic

Author:Gordon Moore

“Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.”

Humans Literature Possibility Activity Accounts Difficulty Complexity Precise Human Activity

Author:Lionel Trilling

“Thoughts are impediments to seeing your deepest nature. Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are. That ocean of eternal peace is you. What is the difficulty that we suffer from? It is that we seek peace elsewhere and do not experience that we are peace incarnate itself.”

Giving Suffering Meditation Seeing Ocean Eternal Difficulty Who You Are Elsewhere Impediments Eternal Peace

Author:H. W. L. Poonja

“"There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the table and swinging his legs. "The most obvious is that you must never let them see that you want them. It should be pure condescension on your part seeing them at all; and the more difficulties you throw in the way of it, the more they think of it. Break your patients in early, and keep them well to heel."”

Source: ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Ultimate Collection: 21 Novels, 188 Short Stories, 88 Poems & 7 Plays, Including Works on Spirituality, Historical Writings & Personal Memoirs (Illustrated): The Sherlock Holmes Series, The Professor Challenger Books, The Brigadier Gerard Stories, The White Company, The Great Shadow, Mystery of Cloomber, Beyond The City, A History of the Great War…

“The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.”

Ifs Humanity Justice Greater Doors Diversity Difficulty Social Justice Deny Favors

Book:The Social Contract ; And, The Discourses

Source: The Social Contract ; And, The Discourses

“Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.”

Men Life Inspirational Needs Success Enjoy Challenges Human Nature Difficulty Presidential Congratulations Road To Success

Book:Wings of Fire: An Autobiography

Source: Wings of Fire: An Autobiography

“Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.”