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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.

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
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
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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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Accustomed Bed Easier
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
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
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak

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