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Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.
Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.
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),
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.
The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from
wilfulness.
The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from
wilfulness.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you. Then you win.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you. Then you win.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
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.
