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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.

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
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, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
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
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
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
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
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret 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
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority

Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.

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