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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

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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Character Gladly Others Stains
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
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
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Corruption Ends Men
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Improvement Inspirational Progress Self

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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