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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.

Berthold Auerbach

We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Fall Grief Rain Silent
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Men Modern Window
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Eye Long Maturity
The vain being is the really solitary being.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Solitary Vain Vanity
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Abstract Creeds Institutions
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Men Selfish Vanity
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Command Work
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Bird Nature Swamp
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Accustomed Bed Easier
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 AUERBACH

Dust Practice Soul
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Devil God Liberty
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Artist Littles New Work
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Character Gladly Others Stains
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Hands Hats World
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Age Men Retains Silver

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