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Years teach us more than books.

Berthold Auerbach

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
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
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
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 vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
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
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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
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
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

Years teach us more than books.

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