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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

Berthold Auerbach

Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.
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Lying Mind People
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
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Corruption Ends Men
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Men Modern Window
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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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Eye Long Maturity
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

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