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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

Berthold Auerbach

Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Corruption Ends Men
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
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
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain 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
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
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
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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Artist Littles New Work
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
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
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

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