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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

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Hands Hats World
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
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
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
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Fall Grief Rain Silent
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Fear Justice Strive
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
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
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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Inspirational Life Wisdom
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Character Gladly Others Stains

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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