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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

Berthold Auerbach

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Important Tedious Weather
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Artist Littles New Work
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
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
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
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
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
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
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
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
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
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Falsehood Purity Truth

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