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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Henrik Ibsen

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
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
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
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
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
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
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
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
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
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

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