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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
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
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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
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
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
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
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
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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Age Men Retains Silver
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
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

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