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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

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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Eye Long Maturity
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.
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Bird Nature Swamp
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Eye Lightning Looks
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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Art Money Valor
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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Age Men Retains Silver
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Disaster Feet Mountain
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Character Gladly Others Stains

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