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  • Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.75
  • Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern: for they themselves cannot even remember the time when in their eyes justice appeared preferable to expediency, the happiness of others to self-interest, or the welfare of a State to the advancement of a party.

    Leadership   Party   Eye  
    Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”
  • To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books; they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences; they always receive me with the same kindness.

    Running   Kindness   Real  
    Michel de Montaigne (1866). “Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Journey Into Italy, and Letters”, p.93
  • Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Though it causes me frequent pain, I find it very easy to place myself in the shoes of almost any boy, and can conjure my own youth with an ease that is troublesome.

    Pain   Eye   Boys  
    Dave Eggers (2007). “What Is the What”, p.116, Vintage
  • Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.

  • Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.

    Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Journey to the Hebrides. Tales of the imagination. Prayers and sermons. Index”, p.317
  • It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.

    John Dewey (1986). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.136, SIU Press
  • Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.

    Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr
  • Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.

    Epictetus (1900). “Discourses ...”
  • Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.

    Regret   Book   Ideas  
    Pseudonymous Bosch (2011). “The Name of this Book is Secret: The Secret Series”, p.7, Usborne Publishing Ltd
  • Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

    Children   Business   Men  
    Getting Married (1911) preface "The Personal Sentimental Basis of Monogamy"
  • Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant.

    Strong   Hero   Men  
    Stephen Leacock (1916). “Essays and Literary Studies”, New York : Lane ; Toronto : S.B. Gundy
  • I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

  • Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

  • Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free.

    Masters   Duty   Regard  
  • It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.

    Mistake   Half   Quarters  
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.51, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

    Use   Wages   Trouble  
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ch. 16 (1884)
  • Troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them.

  • We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.

  • The family indeed is dead, if what we mean by it is the modern family system in which units comprised of male breadwinner and female homemaker, married couples, and their offspring dominate the land. But its ghost, the ideology of the family, survives to haunt the consciousness of all those who refuse to confront it. It is time to perform a social autopsy on the corpse of the modern family system so that we may try to lay its troublesome spirit to rest.

    Couple   Mean   Land  
    Judith Stacey (1996). “In the name of the family: rethinking family values in the postmodern age”, Beacon Pr
  • He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

    Way   Taught   Dishonor  
    George Washington Cable, Mark Twain, Arlin Turner (1960). “Mark Twain [and] G. W. Cable: the record of a literary friendship”
  • The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to provide against them.

    Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”
  • A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

    Men   Garden   Eden  
    W. Somerset Maugham (2002). “The Trembling of a Leaf”, p.84, Dixon Price Pub
  • The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.

    Greatness   Men   World  
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.115
  • Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible.

    Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”
  • Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help thinking that it would be well to discard, as quickly as possible, the old troublesome double-worded name of our science.

    William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
  • When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a bundle of staves would be troublesome. Thus a competency of these outward things may happily help us in the way to heaven, whereas abundance may be hurtful.

    Country   Men   Hands  
  • Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome.

    Important   Want   Reader  
  • GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels.

    Angel   Science   Agency  
    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.102, University of Georgia Press
  • While patriotism is often lauded as an unquestionable value, the status of patriotism is a problem for many thoughtful people. It is particularly troublesome for people who care about the common good but are alienated by the all too frequent use of patriotism and patriotic symbols to stifle debate, tarnish the images of rival candidates, or arouse popular support for aggressive military policies.

    Stephen Nathanson (1993). “Patriotism, Morality, and Peace”, p.11, Rowman & Littlefield
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