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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

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Artist Littles New Work
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Corruption Ends Men
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Command Work
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Emotion Good Habit Mother
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Happy Needs Nothing
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Men Modern Window
Years teach us more than books.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Inspirational Life Wisdom
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Devil God Liberty
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Bird Nature Swamp
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Gratitude Joy Soil
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

Eye Lightning Looks
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Age Men Retains Silver
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Art Money Valor
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Accustomed Bed Easier
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

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

Hands Hats World

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