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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.

Berthold Auerbach

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
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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Age Men Retains Silver
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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Falsehood Purity Truth
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
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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Art Money Valor
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil

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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