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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),
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
And binding nature fast in fate,
Left free the human will.
And binding nature fast in fate,
Left free the human will.
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.
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.