Quotes with unwilling

  • A love to Christ which is so cowardly and selfish that it is unwilling to proclaim by a public confession its faith in Him who hung before all the world crucified for sinners, is a love which is hardly worth the name.
  • They who are most weary of life, and yet are most unwilling to die, are such who have lived to no purpose, - who have rather breathed than lived.

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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge A love to Christ which is so cowardly and selfish that it is unwilling to proclaim by a public confession its faith in Him who hung before all the world crucified for sinners, is a love which is hardly worth the name.
    Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Auberon Herbert Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • E. M. Cioran Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent - unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it - we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Albert J. Nock I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Barbara Jordan Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • James Russell Lowell Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • James Allen Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • John Keats Mortality weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Seneca Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Arthur Keith Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Seneca The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bob Barr The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Lord Clarendon They who are most weary of life, and yet are most unwilling to die, are such who have lived to no purpose, - who have rather breathed than lived.
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  • Blaise Pascal Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
    Pensees
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Anthony Robbins Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Thomas Fuller Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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