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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

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
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
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
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
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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
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
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
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
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

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