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

Berthold Auerbach

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Hands Hats World
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
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
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Abstract Creeds Institutions
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Character Gladly Others Stains
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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

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

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