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

Berthold Auerbach

He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Happy Needs Nothing
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Eye Long Maturity
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
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
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
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
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
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother

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