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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

Berthold Auerbach

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
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
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 vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
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
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
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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
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
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

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