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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

Henrik Ibsen

What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
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
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
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 spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
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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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
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
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

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