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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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Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. – Richard Cecil

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can. – Yiddish Proverb

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A man can do all things if he but wills them. – Leon Battista Alberti

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When a mans willing and eager the gods join in. – Aeschylus

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself. – Johann von Goethe

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