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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.

Henrik Ibsen

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
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
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
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
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
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
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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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
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
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
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage

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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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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