"It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying."
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"It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him."
"The harder you work for money, the more you are taxed, the harder your money works, the less it is taxed."
"There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas."
"if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one."
"These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder."
"Tranquility is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it."
"It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you."
"Depression doesn't take away your talents - it just makes them harder to find."
"You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane."
"If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility."
"The women sit, getting colder and colder, on a seat getting harder and harder, watching oafs, getting muddier and muddier."
"Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder"
"It's harder to say 'no' when you really mean it."
"I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china."
"Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety."
"It’s harder to come back than it is to arrive."
"He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life."
"Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from."
"The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder."