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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

Berthold Auerbach

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Fall Grief Rain Silent
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
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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Bird Nature Swamp
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Character Gladly Others Stains
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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Fear Justice Strive
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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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Dust Practice Soul
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Men Modern Window

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