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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

Berthold Auerbach

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
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
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
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 silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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Age Men Retains Silver
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
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

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