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The vain being is the really solitary being.

Berthold Auerbach

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
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
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
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
No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning … for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
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Eye Lightning Looks
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
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
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
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
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions

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