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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.

Berthold Auerbach

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
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
Years teach us more than books.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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
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
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Harbor Hatred Soul
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
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

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