A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
HENRIK IBSENI believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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