Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHThe little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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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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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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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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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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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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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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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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