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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

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Important Tedious Weather
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Dust Practice Soul
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Companion Healing Solitude
Years teach us more than books.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Inspirational Life Wisdom
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Harbor Hatred Soul
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Accustomed Bed Easier
All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Men Selfish Vanity
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Alone Belief Firm
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Men Modern Window
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Artist Littles New Work
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Art Money Valor
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Eye Lightning Looks
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Bird Nature Swamp
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Command Work

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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