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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

Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
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
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
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
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
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
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 harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak

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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