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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.

Berthold Auerbach

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
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
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
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
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
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.

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