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Years teach us more than books.

Berthold Auerbach

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Men Modern Window
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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Falsehood Purity Truth
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
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
Years teach us more than books.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
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
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself

Years teach us more than books.

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