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I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.

Berthold Auerbach

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
Years teach us more than books.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Fear Justice Strive
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
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
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
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
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
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Age Men Retains Silver

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.

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