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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.

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
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
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
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
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 hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate

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