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 AUERBACHYears teach us more than books.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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The world is the same everywhere.
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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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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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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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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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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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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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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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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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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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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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