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

Berthold Auerbach

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

Character Gladly Others Stains
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Hands Hats World
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

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

Age Men Retains Silver
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Bird Nature Swamp
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Important Tedious Weather
When the foot of the’ mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Disaster Feet Mountain
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Eye Lightning Looks
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Dust Practice Soul
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Companion Healing Solitude
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Fall Grief Rain Silent
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Falsehood Purity Truth
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Men Modern Window
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Art Money Valor

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

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