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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.

Henrik Ibsen

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
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
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
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
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
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
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

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