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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.

Henrik Ibsen

Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Known Myself Right Yourself
The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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General Nature Possession Power Sea
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
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 party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
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
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society

A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.

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