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

Berthold Auerbach

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
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
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
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Men Selfish Vanity
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
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World

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

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