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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

Berthold Auerbach

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
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
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
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
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
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.
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Bird Nature Swamp

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

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