George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) English politician
Of Princes.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections
“The difficulties in princes' business are many and great; but the greatest difficulty, is often in their own mind.”
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1857), Of Empire
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(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 350).
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Context: the battling Reformer too is, from time to time, a needful and inevitable phenomenon. Obstructions are never wanting: the very things that were once indispensable furtherances become obstructions; and need to be shaken off, and left behind us,—a business often of enormous difficulty.
“The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.”
Abigail Adams (1744–1818) 2nd First Lady of the United States (1797–1801)
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Book XXII, sec. 39
History of Rome