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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.

Henrik Ibsen

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction
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
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
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
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
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 go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
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
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
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
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself

In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.

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