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When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

Berthold Auerbach

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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
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
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
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
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
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
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
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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
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

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

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