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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.

Henrik Ibsen

To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
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
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
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
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word

The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.

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