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

Berthold Auerbach

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
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
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
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
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
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
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions

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