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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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Henrik Johan Ibsen
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A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?
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