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The vain being is the really solitary being.

Berthold Auerbach

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
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
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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Dust Practice Soul
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Anger Men Person Weak
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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Artist Littles New Work
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
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Improvement Inspirational Progress Self
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
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
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
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
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Men Modern Window

The vain being is the really solitary being.

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