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The world is the same everywhere.

Berthold Auerbach

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
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 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
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
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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
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
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

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