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| Berthold Auerbach
Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations. He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.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. Only because we think that all things have a relation to us, do they appear justifiable or otherwise.Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child, when his parents die, the past dies.Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.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.When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.Years teach us more than books. |
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