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 hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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The world is the same everywhere.
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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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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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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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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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With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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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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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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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 hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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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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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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