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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.]

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

by Seneca 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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The star of the unconquered will,
He rises in my breast,
Serene, and resolute, and still,
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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.

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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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We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it
through despite to languish long time in read more

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it
through despite to languish long time in error.

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All
Life needs for life is possible to will.

All
Life needs for life is possible to will.

by Lord Alfred Tennyson Found in: Will Quotes,
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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.

by Samuel Johnson Found in: Will Quotes,
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Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of read more

Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.....true love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love or cathexis, it is correct to say, 'Love is as love does'.

by M. Scott Peck Found in: Will Quotes,
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The education of the will is the object of our existence.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Will Quotes,
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