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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 world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
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
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
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.
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Bird Nature Swamp
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
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.
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Men Selfish Vanity
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
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 hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Fall Grief Rain Silent
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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Falsehood Purity Truth

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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