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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

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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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
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
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Bird Nature Swamp
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Lying Mind People
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
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
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Accustomed Bed Easier
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Happy Needs Nothing

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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