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

Berthold Auerbach

Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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
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
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
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
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
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity

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

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