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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

Berthold Auerbach

The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
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
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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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Age Men Retains Silver
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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
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 world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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
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
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom

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