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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
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

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