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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

Berthold Auerbach

Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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.
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Eye Lightning Looks
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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Artist Littles New Work
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
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Eye Long Maturity
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
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
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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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.
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Corruption Ends Men
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World

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