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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.

Berthold Auerbach

Years teach us more than books.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Inspirational Life Wisdom
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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Artist Littles New Work
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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Fear Justice Strive
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
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
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
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
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Falsehood Purity Truth

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.

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