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 AUERBACHThe silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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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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With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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Years teach us more than books.
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He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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The world is the same everywhere.
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