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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

Henrik Ibsen

It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Life Myself Possible Realize
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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
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 must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
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
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word

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