[The Mystic Will by Charles Godfrey Leland]@TWC D-Link bookThe Mystic Will CHAPTER V 1/13
CHAPTER V. WILL AND CHARACTER. "And I have felt A Presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts, a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interposed, Whose dwelling is.
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all in the mind of man; A motion and a spirit that impels All thinking things."-- _Wordsworth_. As the vast majority of people are not agreed as to what really constitutes a Gentleman, while a great many seem to be practically, at least, very much abroad as to the nature of a Christian, so it will be found that, in fact, there is a great deal of difference as regards the Will.
I have known many men, and some women, to be credited by others, and who very much credited themselves, with having iron wills, when, in fact, their every deed, which was supposed to prove it, was based on brazen want of conscience.
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