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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.

Berthold Auerbach

Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Alone Belief Firm
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
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
Years teach us more than books.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Inspirational Life Wisdom
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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
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
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
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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Corruption Ends Men
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Dust Practice Soul

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