An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
HENRIK IBSENThere are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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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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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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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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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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