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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.

Berthold Auerbach

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
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
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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.
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Disaster Feet Mountain
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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
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
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
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

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