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It is will alone that matters! Will alone that mars or makes, Will, that no distraction scatters, And that no resistance breaks.
It is will alone that matters! Will alone that mars or makes, Will, that no distraction scatters, And that no resistance breaks.
Approximate author period: c. 1867 AD · industrial
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- Henrik Ibsen
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- Approximate author period: c. 1867 AD · industrial
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 356; printed byline: Henrik Ibsen; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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