If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.
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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 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... 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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination. WILLIAM GODWIN Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. WILLIAM JAMES Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most... WILLIAM GODWIN If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? A... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary... WILLIAM MORRIS The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. WILLIAM PENN In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before t... WILLIAM PENN