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

Berthold Auerbach

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
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
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
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
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

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