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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.

Berthold Auerbach

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
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
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Command Work
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
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
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
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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Fear Justice Strive
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
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
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
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
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
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Devil God Liberty

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.

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