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Years teach us more than books.

Berthold Auerbach

He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
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
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
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
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
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
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
What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.
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Lying Mind People
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Fall Grief Rain Silent
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother

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