The fragrant earth, the sweet sounds everywhere,
Seemed gifts too great almost for man to bear.
~ William Morris, from The Earthly Paradise (1868-70). The Story of Rhodope
It is Will which gives birth to conduct and character, and makes the difference between a person and a thing.
~ William Fleming, A Manual of Moral Philosophy (1860). Part I, Book III: Of the Difference Between Desiring and Willing
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What we are, such is our world.
~ William Withey Gull, in A Collection of the Published Writings of William Withey Gull, Volume 2 (1896). Memoir: IV. Notes and Aphorisms
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