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

Berthold Auerbach

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
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
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
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
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
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred 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
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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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.
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Eye Long Maturity
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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Artist Littles New Work
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing

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