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Years teach us more than books.

Berthold Auerbach

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
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
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
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
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
Years teach us more than books.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Inspirational Life Wisdom
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Fall Grief Rain Silent
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
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
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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Lying Mind People
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather

Years teach us more than books.

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