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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

Berthold Auerbach

Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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
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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Important Tedious Weather
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
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
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil

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