Henrik Ibsen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
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A novelist has more talent for written than oral assignments.
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Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.
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The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.
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So much beauty in the world, so few eyes to see it.
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God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.
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Young people are so positive and have an answer for everything.
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The devil! what beastly things our memories insist on cherishing!
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Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.
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If an industrialist can sell his products anywhere in India and the world, why should a farmer not be allowed to do so?
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. I do believe that right makes might and that if I am wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference. I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.
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I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one's inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly.
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I have never pretended to be a great House of Commons man, but I pay the House the greatest compliment I can by saying that, from first to last, I never stopped fearing it.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
