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Society has no right to ask of you impossibilities. You cannot always calculate correctly, and you may fail because you cannot get the help that you anticipate. But now I am speaking of the wilful making of promises that you know you cannot keep.
The power of will which sustains those who wish to acquire the habit of poise is, then, the capacity to accomplish acts solely because one has the ardent desire to achieve them. We are now speaking, understand, neither of extreme heroism or of impossibilities. Another point presents itself here. Willpower, in order to preserve its energy, must be sustained and fixt.
There, you little thing, I was only in fun, dabbing her sister's forehead; 'but don't you be a silly puss, and don't you think flightily and eloquently about degenerate impossibilities. There! Now, I'll go back to myself. 'Dear Fanny, let me say first, that I would far rather we worked for a scanty living again than I would see you rich and married to Mr Sparkler.
"He was questioned on the rack two days ago, your Grace." "Have I not said I know all the circumstances? Do you wish me to say it again?" The Queen was plainly getting angry. "I ask your pardon, madam; but I only meant that he could not travel probably, yet awhile. He was on the rack for four hours, I understand." "Well, well," rasped out Elizabeth, "I do not ask impossibilities."
Phoebe and Ruth in the letter cannot be drowned, if they are Granny Marrable and Widow Thrale." A rapid phantasmagoria of possibilities and impossibilities shot through her mind. How could order come of such a chaos? "Excuse me," said Thothmes, speaking for the first time.
The Poles obstinately refused to march with other nations in the only road to civilization; they had valor, but it could not enforce obedience to the laws; it could not preserve domestic tranquillity; it could not restrain the violence of petty feuds and intestine commotions; it could not preserve the proud nobles from unbounded dissipation and corruption; it could not prevent foreign powers from interfering in the affairs of the kingdom; it could not dissolve the union of these powers with discontented parties at home; it could not inspire the slowly-moving machine of government with vigor, when the humblest partisan, corrupted with foreign money, could arrest it with a word; it could not avert the entrance of foreign armies to support the factious and rebellious; it could not uphold, in a divided country, the national independence against the combined effects of foreign and domestic treason; finally, it could not effect impossibilities, nor turn aside the destroying sword which had so long impended over it."
Then he experienced a feeling of intense disappointment that he himself had not been born brown. By degrees his thoughts became more confused and less decided in colour whitey-brown, in fact, and presented a series of complicated regrets and perplexing impossibilities, in a vain effort to disentangle which he dropped asleep.
All those impossibilities, genuine indeed and at the time, 1829, of unforeseen solution, became, under Providence, possible by extending the period of transportation from one year to twenty; so that, instead of two, in reality three million and a half were thus transported.
I can follow them on their courses and beyond that Oh! when I am on Spy Rock I can see more than other men can imagine." For a moment, strange to say, I almost fancied could follow him. The magnetism of his spirit imposed upon me, carried me away with him. Then sober reason told me that he was talking of impossibilities. "Keene," said I, "you are dreaming.
And what of La Corne, who used to put on warpaint and dance around the council fires waving a tomahawk against the English?" "Good old Colonel La Corne! He is now a loyal subject of the king of Great Britain, and very distinguished in the late American war." "My God, what impossibilities within thirty years!"
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