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With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.

Berthold Auerbach

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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
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
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
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
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
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
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 hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Fall Grief Rain Silent

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.

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