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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

Henrik Ibsen

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
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
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
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
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
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
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
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
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking

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