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I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.

Berthold Auerbach

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 world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
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
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
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
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
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
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Eye Long Maturity
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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
No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning … for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
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Eye Lightning Looks
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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

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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