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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

Henrik Ibsen

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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
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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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
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
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
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
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
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

Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

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