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

Berthold Auerbach

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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Falsehood Purity Truth
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
If you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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Dust Practice Soul
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command 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
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
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
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
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
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.
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Lying Mind People
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather

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