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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

Berthold Auerbach

Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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Artist Littles New Work
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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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Dust Practice Soul
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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Eye Lightning Looks
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Character Gladly Others Stains
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
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
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
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude

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