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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

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
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
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
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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Corruption Ends Men
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
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
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
The world is the same everywhere.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Everywhere Work World

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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