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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

Berthold Auerbach

The vain being is the really solitary being.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

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
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

Dust Practice Soul
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Abstract Creeds Institutions
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Emotion Good Habit Mother
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
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Fear Justice Strive
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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
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

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