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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

He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Happy Needs Nothing
Years teach us more than books.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
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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Disaster Feet Mountain
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.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Eye Long Maturity
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
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
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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Hands Hats World
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
The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Solitary Vain Vanity
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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Art Money Valor
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
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Alone Belief Firm
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World

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

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