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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

Berthold Auerbach

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
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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Falsehood Purity Truth
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
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
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
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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
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
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
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
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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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Men Selfish Vanity

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