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Difficult Quotes - Page 16

It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.33, Graphic Arts Books

It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.

Hannah Webster Foster (2015). “The Coquette: or, The History of Eliza Wharton”, p.93, Courier Dover Publications

it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.

Eiji Yoshikawa, Charles S. Terry (1989). “Way of Life and Death”, Pocket

I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.

David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 57: Sermons 3231-3282”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

The harm done is often difficult to repair.

"Singer Islam Gets Libel Damages". news.bbc.co.uk. February 15, 2005.

The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue

Romare Bearden (1989). “Romare Bearden, 1911-1988: A Memorial Exhibition”, Aca Galleries