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Years teach us more than books.

Berthold Auerbach

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
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
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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

Years teach us more than books.

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