Source: Memories of Ice
“Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world”
Sec. 70
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Context: Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
“… nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.”
Source: Lord of Scoundrels
“In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.”
Whom the Bell's Palsy Tolls http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071030_for_whom_the_bells_palsy_tolls/For (referring to her fall 2007 bout of Bell's Palsy).
“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
Crime and Punishment (1866)
Variant: The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.
Source: Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
