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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.

Henrik Ibsen

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
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
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Known Myself Right Yourself
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
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
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself

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