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Years teach us more than books.

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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
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
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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
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
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
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
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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Falsehood Purity Truth
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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

Years teach us more than books.

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