We will have others severely corrected, and will not be corrected ourselves. Thomas à Kempis.
We will not estimate the sun by the quantity of gaslight it saves us. Carlyle.
We will not from the helm, to sit and weep; / But keep our course, though the rough wind say no. (?)
We will obey the voice of the Lord our God, that it may be well with us. Bible.
We wish to be happier than other people; and 5 this is almost always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. Montesquieu.
We would commend a faith that even seems audacious, like that of the sturdy Covenanter Robert Bruce, who requested, as he was dying, that his finger might be placed on one of God's strong promises, as though to challenge the Judge of all with it as he should enter his presence. Dr. Gordon.
We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings when of ourselves we publish them. All's Well, i. 3.
We wrap ourselves up in the cloak of our own better fortune, and turn away our eyes, lest the wants and woes of our brother-mortals should disturb the selfish apathy of our souls. Burns.
We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not possess. Emerson.
We'd jump the life to come. But, in these 10 cases, / We still have judgment here; that we but teach / Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return / To plague the inventor. This even-handed justice / Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice / To our own lips. Macb., i. 7.