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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.

Berthold Auerbach

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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
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
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
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
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
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 hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Fall Grief Rain Silent
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
When the foot of the’ mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
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Disaster Feet Mountain

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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