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The world is the same everywhere.

Berthold Auerbach

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
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
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
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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
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
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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

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