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A willing heart adds feather to the heel
And makes the clown a winged Mercury.
Author: Joanna Baillie
Source: De Montfort (act III, sc. 2)
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He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sect. 2, mem. 5, subs. 5), quoted
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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.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto III, l. 547)
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The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off,
but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.
Author: Confucius
Source: Analects (bk. IX, ch. XXV)
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Barkis is willin'!
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (ch. I)
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"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."
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (ch. VIII)
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There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (ch. VIII)
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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.]
Author: Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Source: Letter
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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
Author: James Anthony Froude
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Calvinism
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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
[Ger., Aber wer fest auf dem Sinne beharrt, der bildet die Welt
sich.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Hermann und Dorothea (IX, 303)
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The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from
wilfulness.
Author: A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare
Source: Guesses at Truth
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The readiness of doing doth expresse
No other but the doer's willingnesse.
Author: Robert Herrick
Source: Hesperides--Readinesse
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All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for
it.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: Boswell's Life
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The star of the unconquered will,
He rises in my breast,
Serene, and resolute, and still,
And calm, and self-possessed.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: The Light of Stars (st. 7)
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A boy's will is the wind's will.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: My Lost Youth
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Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.
- quoted by Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Rovers (act IV),
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: My Lost Youth
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If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by
it, you have reason to rejoice.
[Lat., Tu si animum vicisti potius quam animus te est quod
gaudias.]
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Source: Trinummus (II, 9)
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And binding nature fast in fate,
Left free the human will.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: The Universal Prayer (st. 3)
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not
done it when they could.
Author: Francois Rabelais
Source: Pantagruel (bk. III, ch. XXVII)
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We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it
through despite to languish long time in error.
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Of Benefits (bk. V, ch. XXV, ep. 67)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Troilus at II, ii)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Nestor at V, v)
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Our wills are ours, we know not how;
Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: In Memoriam--Introduction (st. 4)
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All
Life needs for life is possible to will.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: Love and Duty (l. 82)
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There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
Author: Epicetus
Source: None
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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.
Author: Yiddish Proverb
Source: None
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He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: None
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The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.
Author: Marge Piercy
Source: None
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The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.
Author: Bobby Knight
Source: None
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Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
Author: Spanish Proverb
Source: None
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Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will.
Author: Proverb
Source: None
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Will is the dynamic soul-force.
Author: Sivananda
Source: None
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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Source: None
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Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.
Author: Spanish Proverb
Source: None
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Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
Author: James A. Froude
Source: None
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Will is character in action.
Author: William Mcdougall
Source: None
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Do not donut.
Author: John C Lehman
Source: None
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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
Author: Seneca
Source: None
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you. Then you win.
Author: Gandhi
Source: None
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Where there's a will, there's a way.
Author: English Proverb
Source: None
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Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.
Author: Addison Mizner
Source: None
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The education of the will is the object of our existence.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Author: Victor Hugo
Source: None
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