When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.
The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.
I called out to God, but the devil keeps answering.
Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange intuitions of a higher self whose rationale he doubts and does not understand.
I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
