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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

Berthold Auerbach

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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Age Men Retains Silver
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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
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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Bird Nature Swamp
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
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
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Character Gladly Others Stains
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
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.
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Men Selfish Vanity
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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather

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