Might there not be some self-will left that I do not know of?. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Land of Canaan] Reference
Whence springs my conduct but from pride, self-will, selfishness?. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference
So perfect was his submission, that he seemed to have no self-will. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
He has too much of her self-will and dogged pride to pull with her. From Wordnik.com. [The Carved Cupboard] Reference
It seemed almost to displease him that he should have no self-will to break. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
Isaac's heart was rent by the deceit of Jacob, and by the self-will of Esau. From Wordnik.com. [Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters] Reference
"Stay one moment, and you shall know what your pride and self-will have cost you!". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
Robert, it is overwhelming; you know we have seen his self-will shown in many ways. From Wordnik.com. [Barbara's Heritage Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters] Reference
The one is rooted in self-will; the other is rooted in the power of the Divine grace. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
All I want them to do is to correct their little spirit of self-will and cultivate good taste. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference
How often do rashness, precipitation, and self-will accompany our determinations and movements. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham.] Reference
Fasting did for him what it seems to do for all when excess is reached either by self-will or necessity. From Wordnik.com. [Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm] Reference
Thine own self-will and anxiety, thy hurry and labor, disturb thy peace, and prevent Me from working in thee. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Strength for Daily Needs] Reference
A man may attribute to the gods, if he likes, what is caused by his own fury, or disappointment, or self-will. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
"Experience shows," says St. Bernard, "that the yoke of obedience is light, and that self-will is oppressive.". From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi] Reference
In the reading of books I have in the past found great pleasure; now, it was to be the supreme trial of self-will. From Wordnik.com. [A Disobedient Hand] Reference
A soaring, speculative imagination, and an impetuous, resistless self-will, were his distinguishing characteristics. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850] Reference
Do you think I can ever forget that but for her caprice and self-will you would never have had those years of suffering, Floyd?. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
In it was power, self-will, ambition -- but no tenderness nor that voice, soft and low, which "is an excellent thing in woman.". From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
But he allowed no indulgence with regard to the essential points of a solitary life, silence, poverty, and the denial of self-will. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
I was brought up just to please myself and to have my own way -- to be, in fact, a little incarnation of self-will and selfishness. From Wordnik.com. [Working in the Shade Lowly Sowing brings Glorious Reaping] Reference
For these reasons his designs were more mischievous, his daring more spontaneous, and his self-will greater in all junctures alike. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form] Reference
He looked earnestly in my face, in the bright moonlight, as he said these words, but could read there nothing but self-will and defiance. From Wordnik.com. [Walter Harland Or, Memories of the Past] Reference
If he would acknowledge this actual supremacy of evil and self-will in the world, the opposition of passion and prejudice might be avoided. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference
She had never had any illusions about herself, and had never attempted to curb the obstinate self-will and haughty pride that had characterized her. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
Respect for the right of the individual to self-will was so deeply ingrained as to make the deliberate unseating of another's reason virtually impossible. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Life] Reference
She was at his feet, tamed thoroughly at last, all her proud, angry self-will swamped in the love that was consuming her with an intensity that was an agony. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
Let not my soul go into their counsel, nor my glory be in their assembly: because in their fury they slew a man, and in their self-will they undermined a wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
None the less, there began to grow up in their minds ideas of independence and self-will, the natural consequences of the elevation effected in their sentiments. From Wordnik.com. [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference
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