We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWhen 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.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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Years teach us more than books.
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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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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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With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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