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

Berthold Auerbach

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
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
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
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
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
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
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
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak

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

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