“The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.”
Act 6, sc. 2
Dirty Hands (1948)
“According to the proverb, the best things are the most difficult.”
Moralia, Of the Training of Children
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“Be secret and exult,
Because of all things known
That is most difficult.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Nothing http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1723/ <br class="br">Responsibilities (1914) <br class="br">Context: Now all the truth is out,<br>Be secret and take defeat<br>From any brazen throat,<br>For how can you compete,<br>Being honour bred, with one<br>Who, were it proved he lies,<br>Were neither shamed in his own<br>Nor in his neighbours’ eyes?<br>Bred to a harder thing<br>Than Triumph, turn away<br>And like a laughing string<br>Whereon mad fingers play<br>Amid a place of stone,<br>Be secret and exult,<br>Because of all things known<br>That is most difficult.
“One of the most difficult things in the world is to learn to take a hint easily.”
E. W. Howe (1853–1937) Novelist, magazine and newspaper editor
County Town Sayings (1911), p111.