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

Berthold Auerbach

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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Fear Justice Strive
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
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain 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
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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
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
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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
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
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
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom

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

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