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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
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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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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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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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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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