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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

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Fear Justice Strive
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Command Work
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Companion Healing Solitude
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Men Modern Window
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Anger Men Person Weak
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Artist Littles New Work
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Harbor Hatred Soul
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
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

Disaster Feet Mountain
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Eye Lightning Looks
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Lying Mind People
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Gratitude Joy Soil
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Abstract Creeds Institutions
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
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Important Tedious Weather

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