Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather / The multitudinous seas incarnadine, / Making the green one red. Macb., ii. 2.

Will is deaf, and hears no heedful friends. Shakespeare.

Will it, and set to work briskly. Schiller.

Will localises us; thought universalises us. 20 Amiel.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity. Schopenhauer.

"Will-to-do," which is the spirit of the true God, is eternally incompatible with "wish-to-have," which is the proper spirit of the false. Ed.

Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, / Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. Pope.

Willows are weak, yet they bind other wood. Pr.

Willst du den Dichter verstehen, so lerne wie 25 Dichter empfinden—Wilt thou understand a poet, then learn to feel as a poet. G. Keil.

Willst du dich am Ganzen erquicken, / So musst du das Ganze im Kleinsten erblicken—Wilt thou strengthen thyself in the whole, then must thou see the whole in the least object. Goethe.