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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWhy has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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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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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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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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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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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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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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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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The world is the same everywhere.
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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Years teach us more than books.
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