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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

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
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
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
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
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
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
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
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
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
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
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
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

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