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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
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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Artist Littles New Work
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
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
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
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.
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Eye Long Maturity
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
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
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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
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
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
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

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