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The vain being is the really solitary being.

Berthold Auerbach

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
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
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
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
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred 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

The vain being is the really solitary being.

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