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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.

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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
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
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 hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Fall Grief Rain Silent
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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
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
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother

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