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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal
Difficulties exist to be surmounted
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
The fascination of what's difficult
Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent
Spontaneous joy and natural content
Out of my heart.
Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent
Spontaneous joy and natural content
Out of my heart.
The Green Helmet and Other Poems, 1910. The Fascination of What's Difficult
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