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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.

Henrik Ibsen

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Life Myself Possible Realize
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing

The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.

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