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Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what read more
Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.
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),
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.
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.
Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.
A boy's will is the wind's will.
A boy's will is the wind's will.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
