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Quotes from A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose — Berthold Auerbach

1812–1882 Germany

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29 quotes

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

Why does it signify to us what they think of us after death, when our being has become only an empty sound?

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

We make nothing: we only form and discover what is already there, but which without our assistance cannot release itself from shapeless chaos.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

It is not joy nor repose which is the aim of life. It is work, or there is no aim at all.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

What is all our knowledge? We do not even know what weather it will be to-morrow.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

On the Heights (Bunnett, trans.)

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

Books make men alone for themselves.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

The world is the same everywhere.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Berthold Auerbach (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.