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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

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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Lying Mind People
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
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
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
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Happy Needs Nothing
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
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
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Corruption Ends Men
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Fall Grief Rain Silent

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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