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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.

Berthold Auerbach

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
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
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Happy Needs Nothing
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
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
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
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
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
Years teach us more than books.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Falsehood Purity Truth
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 AUERBACH

Eye Long Maturity
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
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
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Lying Mind People

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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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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