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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

Berthold Auerbach

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
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
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
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
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
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
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
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
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
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
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
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

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