"The will is deaf and hears no..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.
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“At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.”
“As love is full of unbefitting strains,All wanton as a child, skipping and vain,Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye,Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms,Varying in subjects as the eye doth rollTo every varied object in his glance”
“Your praises will become your wages.”
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“How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.”
“Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.”
“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
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“The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.”
“A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.”
“Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just as truth and falsehood pertain to the reason, the act of which is distinguished essentially by the difference of truth and falsehood (according as we say that an opinion is true or false.) Consequently, good and evil volition are acts differing in species.”