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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

The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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
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
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
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
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Corruption Ends Men
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
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Harbor Hatred Soul
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Falsehood Purity Truth

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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