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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

Berthold Auerbach

Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
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
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
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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Artist Littles New Work
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.
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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.
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Eye Long Maturity
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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
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
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

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

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