The will cannot be forced.
A forced kindness deserves no thanks. [ Proverb ]
Judgment is forced upon us by experience. [ Johnson ]
Fanned fires and forced love ne'er did weel. [ Scotch Proverb ]
With oaths like rivets forced into your brain. [ Cowper ]
Faith is like love; it does not admit of being forced. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
She gave a forced laugh (laughed with the end of her teeth). [ French Proverb ]
Hard unkindness' altered eye. That mocks the tear it forced to flow. [ Gray ]
He's at a great loss for jests that is forced to rake hell for them. [ Proverb ]
It is a rank courtesy, when a man is forced to give thanks for what is his own. [ Proverb ]
True religion is a life unfolded within, not something forced on us from without. [ William Ellery Channing ]
The spider lost her distaff, and is ever since forced to draw her thread through her tail. [ Proverb ]
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands. [ Dryden ]
Dangers are light, if they seem light; and more dangers have deceived men than forced them. [ Bacon ]
Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit. [ Lady Blessington ]
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and, far from commanding it, we are forced to obey it. [ Rousseau ]
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature but what he was forced to ascribe it to many inconsistencies. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Admiration is a forced tribute; and to extort it from mankind, envious and ignorant as they are, they must be taken unawares. [ James Northcote ]
At the gates of the forest the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which can never return. [ Johnson ]
As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works. [ Bishop Hall ]
They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain; And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt. [ Cowper ]
What is the world, or its opinion, to him who has studied in the lives of men the mysteries of their egotism and perfidy! He knows that the best and most generous hearts are often forced to tread the thorny paths, where insults and outrages are heaped upon them! [ George Sand ]
Dangers are no more light if they once seem light, and more dangers have deceived men than forced them; nay, it were better to meet some dangers half-way, though they come nothing near, than to keep too long a watch upon their approaches; for if a man watch too long it is odds be will fall fast asleep. [ Bacon ]
Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: Soldiers, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries; - those who love freedom and their country may follow me.
That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life. [ Kossuth ]