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

Henrik Ibsen

What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
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
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
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
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
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
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
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
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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Fair Majority Support Truth
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
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

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