"A man can do as he will, but not will as he will."

Willpower, Will, Freedom, Choice, Action

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"A man can do as he will, but not will as he will."

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"Stairway to Hell or Yellow Brick Road? Why don't you give your Magic 8 Ball a shake and see if it's ready to play again."

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"I will bestir myself,' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good."

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"Ronan didn't need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted."

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"If your will is your deepest pure desires, then it will manifest in its own due time."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"You can't try to do things you simply must do them."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

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"Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"Do all the works you can while you still have the strength to work."

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"You're what I've been looking for my whole life, and if you let me, I'll love you for the rest of yours."

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Explore more quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."

Art

"What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them."

Youth

"It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards."

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"The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting."

Literature

"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."

Art

"Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat."

Happiness

"Optimism, where it is not just the thoughtless talk of someone with only words in his flat head, strikes me as not only absurd, but even a truly wicked way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the unspeakable sufferings of humanity."

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"Time is that in which all things pass away."

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"National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right."

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"The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning."

Intellect