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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.

Henrik Ibsen

You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
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
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
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
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
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
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Finance Follow Rest Sports

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