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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

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
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Happy Needs Nothing
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
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
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
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
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
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Men Modern Window
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
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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude

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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