struggle with

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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error. Friedrich Schiller

Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought. Mark Kingwell

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. Charles Cooley

I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered - now I have only one doubt left - which of the twain was God? Aleister Crowley

In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle. Anton Chekhov

Better to struggle with a sick jackass than carry the wood by yourself. Zen Proverb

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