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

Berthold Auerbach

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
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
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
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
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
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
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
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
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
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
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World

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