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I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.

Berthold Auerbach

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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
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
If you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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Dust Practice Soul
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
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
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
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Corruption Ends Men
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
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
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.

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