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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

Berthold Auerbach

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
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
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
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
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Character Gladly Others Stains
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
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
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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
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
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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

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