What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
HENRIK IBSENOh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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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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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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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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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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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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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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