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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

Henrik Ibsen

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
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 am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
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
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
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
Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Known Myself Right Yourself
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
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friendship Lying Oneself
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst

Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

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