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

Berthold Auerbach

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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
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
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
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
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
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
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

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