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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

  Art, Short Life, Opportunity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.75

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• Metellus Numidicus, the censor, acknowledged to the Roman people, in a public oration, that had kind nature allowed us to exist without the help of women, we should be delivered from a very troublesome companion; and he could recommend matrimony only as the sacrifice of private pleasure to public duty.

  Edward Gibbon

  Sacrifice, People, Helping

  Edward Gibbon (1825). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1: Complete in Eight Volumes”, p.180

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• Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

  Mark Twain

  Names, Giving, Constellations

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.76, eKitap Projesi

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• It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.

  John Dewey

  Belief, Alterations

  John Dewey (1986). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.136, SIU Press

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• It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome.

  Josh Billings

  Doctors, Sick, Healthy

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• 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.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Running, Kindness, Real

  Michel de Montaigne (1866). “Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Journey Into Italy, and Letters”, p.93

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• Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Business, Children, Men

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• Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine is too complicated for all the elements to be able to enter into the analytical comparison we wish to make, we separate the more inconvenient [elements], we substitute others for them, less troublesome but also less real, and we are surprised to arrive, notwithstanding a painful labour, only at a result contradicted by nature; as if after having disguised it, cut it short or altered it, a purely mechanical combination could give it back to us.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Real, Cutting, Giving

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• All beginnings are very troublesome things.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1836). “Traits and Trials of Early Life”, p.135

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Impossible, Annoyance

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• This act is an ancient tale new told;
  And, in the last repeating, troublesome,
  Being urged at a time unseasonable.

  William Shakespeare

  Lasts, Ancient, Tales

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Life and Death of King John”, p.213, Oxford University Press, USA

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• But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.

  Francis Bacon

  Fashion, Philosophy, Believe

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• Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.

  Richard Steele

  Anger

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• To live
  On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces,
  Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all
  Not yours. Given, uninherited, unpaid for;
  This is to be a trickster; and to filch
  Men's art and labour, which to them is wealth,
  Life, daily bread;--quitting all scores with "friend,
  You're troublesome!" Why this, forgive me,
  Is what, when done with a less dainty grace,
  Plain folks call "Theft.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Mean, Men

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• An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous

  Thomas Overbury

  Ambitious, World, Bees

  "The Just Downfall of Ambition, Adultery and Murder" by Thomas Overbury,

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• A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Men, Ideas

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2943, GENERAL PRESS

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• To her whose heart is my heart's quiet home,
  To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee
  I learnt love-lore that is not troublesome.

  Christina Rossetti

  Mother, Home, Heart

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.416, Delphi Classics

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• the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

  Jane Austen

  Son, Years, Hopeless

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.182, BookCaps Study Guides

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• It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be.

  Beck

  Littles, Bits, Little Bit

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• I don't think writers should be convenient examples. I don't think we should make people feel settled. I don't try to be a gadfly, but I do think that real ideas are troublesome. There should be something about my work that leaves the reader unsettled. I intend that.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• His sympathy made tears spring to Lina's eyes. Doon looked startled for a moment, and then he took a step toward her and wrapped his arms around her. He gave her a squeeze so quick and tight that it made her cough, and then it made her laugh. She realized all at once that Doon--thin, dark-eyed Doon with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket and his good heart--was the person that she knew better than anyone now. He was her best friend.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Spring, Heart, Eye

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.93, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• ['March'] is a path you must take if you want to move from one point to another point. If you want to make it down this very long and troublesome road, follow this path. Follow this message. Follow this map. And you will get there some day.

  John Lewis

  Moving, Long, Maps

  Source: www.salon.com

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• In most, when you go to church, most churches when they have images of the good shepherd, they show Jesus carrying a nice fluffy lamb. Now fluffy little lambs don't stray from their mommy's. The sheep that will stray is the most obstreperous, troublesome one.

  Desmond Tutu

  Jesus, Nice, Sheep

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• 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.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Business, Men

  Getting Married (1911) preface "The Personal Sentimental Basis of Monogamy"

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• Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.

  Anthony Trollope

  Long, Passionate, Lasts

  Anthony Trollope (1861). “The Bertrams: a novel”, p.303

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