I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHPeople 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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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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He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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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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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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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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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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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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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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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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