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The vain being is the really solitary being.

Berthold Auerbach

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
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
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 vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
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
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
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
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
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom

The vain being is the really solitary being.

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