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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 silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Age Men Retains Silver
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Gratitude Joy Soil
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
The vain being is the really solitary being.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Solitary Vain Vanity
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Eye Lightning Looks
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
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Anger Men Person Weak
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Disaster Feet Mountain
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

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

Hands Hats World
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Emotion Good Habit Mother
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Alone Belief Firm
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
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Corruption Ends Men
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Fall Grief Rain Silent

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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