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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.

Berthold Auerbach

Years teach us more than books.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Inspirational Life Wisdom
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Harbor Hatred Soul
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
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
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 AUERBACH

Eye Long Maturity
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
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
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
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Anger Men Person Weak
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
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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
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
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Character Gladly Others Stains
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
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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Corruption Ends Men
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Hands Hats World

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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