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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.

Henrik Ibsen

What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
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
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
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
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
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

That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.

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