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 AUERBACHSolitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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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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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Years teach us more than books.
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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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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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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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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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