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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

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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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
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
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
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

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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