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Years teach us more than books.

Berthold Auerbach

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
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
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
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
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
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
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself

Years teach us more than books.

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