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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to piece

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. – Richard Cecil

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Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. – Richard Cecil

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Gods way of answering the Christians prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction. – Richard Cecil

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If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own. – Richard Cecil

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God. – Jacob Boehme

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Who wills the end, wills the means. – Proverb

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in. – Aeschylus

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