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


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WILLIAM FINNEGAN Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current...
WILLIAM JAMES As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now is the winter of our discontent.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human he...
WILLIAM GODWIN Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
WILLIAM BLAKE The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
WILLIAM JAMES I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasio...
WILLIAM JOYCE Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
WILLIAM GOLDING The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The course of true love never did run smooth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE