The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWhat 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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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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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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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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Years teach us more than books.
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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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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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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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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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