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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

Henrik Ibsen

And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Human Myself Responsibility Role
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
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
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
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
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
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
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
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll

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