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

Berthold Auerbach

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 vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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.
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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
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
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
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
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
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
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.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul

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

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