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

Berthold Auerbach

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
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Happy Needs Nothing
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
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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Falsehood Purity Truth
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
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 world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Eye Long Maturity
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Fear Justice Strive

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

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