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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

Berthold Auerbach

The vain being is the really solitary being.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Solitary Vain Vanity
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
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
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
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 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
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
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
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Age Men Retains Silver

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