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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

Berthold Auerbach

People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Eye Long Maturity
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Harbor Hatred Soul
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
Years teach us more than books.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Inspirational Life Wisdom
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Corruption Ends Men
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Character Gladly Others Stains
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

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
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Accustomed Bed Easier

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