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 AUERBACHWhy has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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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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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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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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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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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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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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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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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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To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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