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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

Berthold Auerbach

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Falsehood Purity Truth
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Corruption Ends Men
When the foot of the’ mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
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Disaster Feet Mountain
People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.
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Eye Long Maturity
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning … for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
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Eye Lightning Looks
All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
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Men Selfish Vanity
What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.
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Lying Mind People
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Character Gladly Others Stains

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

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