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The vain being is the really solitary being.

Berthold Auerbach

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 world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
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
All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
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Men Selfish Vanity
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
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
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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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