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The world is the same everywhere.

Berthold Auerbach

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
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
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.
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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
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
What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.
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Lying Mind People
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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
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

The world is the same everywhere.

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