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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.

Henrik Ibsen

Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
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
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Agony Death Execution Himself Willing
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
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
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 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
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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Allow Direction Learning Myself Need Possible Respect Working
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
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
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
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word

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