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Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.
- quoted by Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Rovers read more

Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.
- quoted by Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Rovers (act IV),

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The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from
wilfulness.

The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from
wilfulness.

by A.w. Hare And J.c. Hare Found in: Will Quotes,
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A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it
is because he read more

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it
is because he will not.
[Ger., Der Mensch kann was er soll; und wenn er sagt er kann
nicht, so will er nicht.]

by Johann Gottlieb Fichte Found in: Will Quotes,
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So many of our DREAMS at first seem Impossible, then they seem Improbable, and then when we Summon the Will, read more

So many of our DREAMS at first seem Impossible, then they seem Improbable, and then when we Summon the Will, they soon become Inevitable.

by Christopher Reeve Found in: Will Quotes,
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Here, here, and everywhere, he leaves and takes,
Dexterity so obeying appetite
That what he will he read more

Here, here, and everywhere, he leaves and takes,
Dexterity so obeying appetite
That what he will he does, and does so much
That proof is called impossibility.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Will Quotes,
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There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

by Charles Dickens Found in: Will Quotes,
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A willing heart adds feather to the heel
And makes the clown a winged Mercury.

A willing heart adds feather to the heel
And makes the clown a winged Mercury.

by Joanna Baillie Found in: Will Quotes,
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I take to-day a wife, and my election
Is led on in the conduct of my will--
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I take to-day a wife, and my election
Is led on in the conduct of my will--
My will enkindled my by mine and ears
Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores
Of will and judgment.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Will Quotes,
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Will is the dynamic soul-force.

Will is the dynamic soul-force.

by Sivananda Found in: Will Quotes,
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