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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

Henrik Ibsen

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
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
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
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
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself

Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

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