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The vain being is the really solitary being.

Berthold Auerbach

Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
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
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
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
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
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
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
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
The vain being is the really solitary being.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Solitary Vain Vanity

The vain being is the really solitary being.

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