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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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And what if I did run my ship aground oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
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It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.
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