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.
- Source
- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911)
Complete signed selection 356; printed byline: Henrik Ibsen; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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