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 AUERBACHIn 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.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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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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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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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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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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When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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The world is the same everywhere.
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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Years teach us more than books.
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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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