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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.
If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for
it.
All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for
it.
He that complies against his will,
Is of his own opinion still,
Which he may adhere to, read more
He that complies against his will,
Is of his own opinion still,
Which he may adhere to, yet disown,
For reasons to himself best known.
"When a man says he's willin'," said Mr. Barkis, "it's as much as
to say, that man's a-waitin' for read more
"When a man says he's willin'," said Mr. Barkis, "it's as much as
to say, that man's a-waitin' for a answer."
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.
And binding nature fast in fate,
Left free the human will.
And binding nature fast in fate,
Left free the human will.