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

Berthold Auerbach

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

Command Work
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
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Fear Justice Strive
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Corruption Ends Men
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Art Money Valor
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Gratitude Joy Soil
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Anger Men Person Weak
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Happy Needs Nothing
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Emotion Good Habit Mother
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Devil God Liberty
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
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
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

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

Fall Grief Rain Silent

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

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