With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWhy has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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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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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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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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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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The world is the same everywhere.
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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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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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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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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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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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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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