When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.


William Osler

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE
I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the p...
WILLIAM STYRON
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
WILLIAM BARCLAY
God himself took this human flesh upon him.
WILLIAM BARCLAY
But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus...
WILLIAM BARCLAY
If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attai...
WILLIAM BARCLAY
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
WILLIAM BARCLAY
The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H...
WILLIAM BARCLAY
Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love C...
WILLIAM BARCLAY
For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like...
WILLIAM BARCLAY
When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in t...
WILLIAM BARCLAY
In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY
A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
WILLIAM BARCLAY
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY
When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause h...
WILLIAM BARCLAY
They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE
It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingl...
WILLIAM GIBSON
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel wort...
WILLIAM PENN
The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
WILLIAM GODWIN
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES
Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
WILLIAM GOLDING
No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
WILLIAM GODWIN
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPER
I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE