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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

Berthold Auerbach

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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
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
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
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
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.
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Disaster Feet Mountain
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World

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