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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

Berthold Auerbach

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
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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
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
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
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
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
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
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

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