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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Henrik Ibsen

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
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
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
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

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