We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHGratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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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.
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Years teach us more than books.
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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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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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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The world is the same everywhere.
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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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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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