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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

Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred 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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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Falsehood Purity Truth
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm

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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