The vain being is the really solitary being.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHSolitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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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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Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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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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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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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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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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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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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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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.
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