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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.

Berthold Auerbach

The vain being is the really solitary being.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Solitary Vain Vanity
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
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Fear Justice Strive
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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
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
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Harbor Hatred Soul
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Bird Nature Swamp
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Fall Grief Rain Silent
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Emotion Good Habit Mother
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
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Art Money Valor

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