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All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

Berthold Auerbach

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
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
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
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
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Men Selfish Vanity
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
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
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Dust Practice Soul
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Fall Grief Rain Silent

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

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