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

Berthold Auerbach

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
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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Disaster Feet Mountain
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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Men Selfish Vanity
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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Art Money Valor
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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Eye Long Maturity
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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Lying Mind People
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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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Eye Lightning Looks
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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Artist Littles New Work
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World

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