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

Berthold Auerbach

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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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
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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
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
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
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
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
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
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
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
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 silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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Age Men Retains Silver
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier

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

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