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

Berthold Auerbach

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
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.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
What 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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Lying Mind People
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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Falsehood Purity Truth
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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Important Tedious Weather
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
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Fall Grief Rain Silent
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
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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

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