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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.

Henrik Ibsen

To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
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 go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
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
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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