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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
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
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
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
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
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’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
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.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time

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