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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

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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Eye Long Maturity
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Hands Hats World
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
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
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
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Fear Justice Strive
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Bird Nature Swamp
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude

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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