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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWe consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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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.
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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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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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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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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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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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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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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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The world is the same everywhere.
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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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