Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHBeing alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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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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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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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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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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