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Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep in the other that it may not be dismayed.
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep in the other that it may not be dismayed.
Approximate author period: c. 1629 AD · renaissance
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- Baltasar Gracian
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- Approximate author period: c. 1629 AD · renaissance
Approximate period for recorded attribution label Baltasar Gracian: recorded author lifetime 1601–1658. Source: https://edsverb.com/authors/baltasar-gracian (checked 2026-10-08). The existing author record is baltasar-gracian; no author identity is bound and no quotation composition date or attribution is independently verified.
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