#wills

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing. ↗

— Claudius

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Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

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Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff. ↗

— John Grisham

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Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

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A man can do all things if he but wills them. ↗

— Leon Battista Alberti

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What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny. ↗

— William R. Alger

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Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession. ↗

— Martin Luther

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The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

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