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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.

Henrik Ibsen

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
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
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
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
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
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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Day Man Night Sorrow Woman
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
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
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
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
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

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