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The vain being is the really solitary being.

Berthold Auerbach

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
What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.
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Lying Mind People
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 world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Fall Grief Rain Silent
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
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
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul

The vain being is the really solitary being.

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