Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Years teach us more than books.
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The world is the same everywhere.
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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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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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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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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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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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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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