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Difficult Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.
- Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
- The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.
- The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity .
- Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
- To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
- The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
- To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.
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