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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

Berthold Auerbach

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Abstract Creeds Institutions
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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
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
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
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

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