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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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
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
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
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
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
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
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
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

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