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Berthold Auerbach

When the foot of the’ mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
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Disaster Feet Mountain
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
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Men Modern Window
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
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
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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Art Money Valor
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
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
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak

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