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The vain being is the really solitary being.

Berthold Auerbach

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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Accustomed Bed Easier
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
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Gratitude Joy Soil
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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Command Work
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Companion Healing Solitude
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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Harbor Hatred Soul
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
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
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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Emotion Good Habit Mother
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
The world is the same everywhere.
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Everywhere Work World
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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Abstract Creeds Institutions
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
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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Fear Justice Strive
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
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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Devil God Liberty
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Fall Grief Rain Silent

The vain being is the really solitary being.

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