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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.

Berthold Auerbach

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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
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
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
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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Men Selfish Vanity
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
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
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
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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

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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