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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHNo mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning … for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Years teach us more than books.
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To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
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The world is the same everywhere.
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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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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.
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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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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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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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