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"It lies in our own power to attune the mind to cheerfulness."
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Berthold AuerbachGratitude is a soil on which joy thrives. — Berthold Auerbach
"Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives."
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Berthold Auerbach
Berthold Auerbach
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Berthold Auerbach was a German poet and author. He was the founder of the German "tendency novel", in which fiction is used as a means of influencing public opinion on social, political, moral, and religious questions.
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"Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother."
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"Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed, than to a sack of leaves."
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"The best self-forgetfulness is to look at the things of the world with attention and love; for, really, attention is fraught with love, and perhaps that which is most unselfish."
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"A mirror is the very foundation of self-consciousness."
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"We make nothing: we only form and discover what is already there, but which without our assistance cannot release itself from shapeless chaos."
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