Having mastered the lesser difficulties, you will more safely venture on greater achievements.
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.
quote by Eric Hoffer
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Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
quote by Winston Churchill
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Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind
The oftener seen, the more I lust,
The more I lust, the more I smart,
The more I smart, the more I trust,
The more I trust, the heavier heart;
The heavy hearty breeds mine unrest,
Thy absence, therefore, like I best.
The rarer seen, the lest in mind,
The less in mind, the lesser pain,
The lesser pain, less grief I find,
The lesser grief, the greater gain,
The greater gain, the merrier I,
The further off, the more I joy,
The more I joy, the happier life,
The happier life, less hurts annoy,
The lesser hurts, pleasure most rife:
Such pleasures rife shall I obtain
When distance doth depart us twain.
poem by Barnabe Googe
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
quote by Mao Tse Tung
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When The Need To Write Poetry
When the need to write Poetry
Is greater than the Poetry one has-
When one forces onself to write lines
Though those lines are lesser poetry-
When against one's own inner emptiness
One nonetheless writes the words down-
When the need to write poetry
Is greater than the Poetry one has
There is lesser Poetry
Perhaps no Poetry at all.
poem by Shalom Freedman
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
quote by Ethel Barrymore
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
quote by B.C. Forbes
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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
quote by Albert Einstein
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There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.
quote by Jasmine Guy
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Four Deaths
Four deaths are greater than one,
On return there presents a win,
A win can count much too much,
Mastered by the loneliness of rich,
Heavier than the prayer been.
poem by Naveed Akram
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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
quote by Mark Twain
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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Laws control the lesser man; right conduct controls the greater one.
Venture a small fish to catch a much greater one.
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
quote by Baltasar Gracian
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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
quote by T.S. Eliot
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Man still is just man
When man mastered
the horse and chariot,
and later build cars
to drive over the earth
it made him no god
over it
and still he lacked
the knowledge
of how to make
out of nothing and a void
sand, pebbles and rock.
When man felled a tree
and build a boat
to float on the river
and the sea
and later constructed ships
and submarines
and mastered the art of sailing
he still was just man
and storms, huge waves
and water could still kill him.
When man mastered the art
of flying by machines
and could travel in the sky,
planes could still dropp and crash
and man was still bound
by the laws of nature.
When man mastered fire, steam, fuel,
electricity and nuclear power
and could harness it
at his choice
and reached into space,
he still stayed human
and a spec in the universe.
poem by Gert Strydom
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A Reminder To All
perhaps after man has
mastered the laws of the wind
and the land
and the water
he must venture on mastering
the laws of love
for by then
in another moment of history
we shall find again
that fire
that must continue burning
love, and more love
in our drying hearts.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Villanelle For Our Time
From bitter searching of the heart,
Quickened with passion and with pain
We rise to play a greater part.
This is the faith from which we start:
Men shall know commonwealth again
From bitter searching of the heart.
We loved the easy and the smart,
But now, with keener hand and brain,
We rise to play a greater part.
The lesser loyalties depart,
And neither race nor creed remain
From bitter searching of the heart.
Not steering by the venal chart
That tricked the mass for private gain,
We rise to play a greater part.
Reshaping narrow law and art
Whose symbols are the millions slain,
From bitter searching of the heart
We rise to play a greater part.
song performed by by Leonard Cohen
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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
quote by Elizabeth Bowen
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