What are some famous sentences like "Everything is difficult at the beginning"?

First, it was long before I met her, but since we separated, it has been longer, and the east wind has risen and a hundred flowers are blooming. Silkworms in spring will weave until they die, and candles will drain the wick every night.

Source: untitled time was long before I met her, and even longer after we broke up.

Interpretation of vernacular:

It's hard to meet each other, and it's even harder to leave, not to mention in this late spring when the east wind is weak and the flowers are withered.

Spring silkworms don't spin silk when they die, and wax oil like tears can drip dry when candles are burned to ashes.

Second, such travelling is harder than scaling the blue sky! Until the two rulers of this area forced their way through in the foggy age! Forty-eight thousand years have passed. Don't talk to Qin Sai.

And Dabaishan, to the west, still has only one bird path, all the way to the peak of Emei.

Source: Li Bai's Shu Dao Nan in Tang Dynasty

Interpretation of vernacular:

It is difficult to climb the Shu Road, and it is difficult to go to the sky. Legend has it that Can Cong and Yufu established Shu, and the founding date is too long to discuss in detail. About 48,000 years ago. Qin and Shu were separated by Qinling Mountains, and they never came and went. Taibai Mountain in the west is steep and there is no road. Only birds can fly over the mountain until it reaches the top of Mount Emei in the middle of Sichuan.

Third, Xiongguan Road is as iron as iron, and now it is only one step away from the beginning.

Source: modern and contemporary? Mao Zedong recalled Qin 'e Loushanguan.

Vernacular interpretation: don't say that the ups and downs of mountains are as insurmountable as iron. Now let's rally.

Four, Bashan Chu water desolate, waste in twenty-three years. People come back. Like people in Michelle, I can only play the flute, and I am disappointed.

Source: Tang? Liu Yuxi's "Enjoy Lotte at the First Meeting in Yangzhou"

Interpretation of vernacular Chinese: Being banished to these desolate areas of Bashan and Chushui, he spent 23 years in poverty. The old days of remembering old friends and reciting Xiao Fu in vain no longer exist.

Fifth, consider the wine to be wide, and raise a glass to break the song road. If the heart is not vegetation, how can there be no feelings? Want to say or say, and want to do, no longer say anything.

Source: Southern and Northern Dynasties? Bao Zhao? % pw it's hard to go to four

Interpretation of vernacular Chinese: Drink some wine to comfort yourself, and sing a song is hard to walk. The singing was interrupted by a drink. People's hearts are not vegetation, how can they have no feelings? If you want to say it, don't say it. Don't say anything more.