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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.
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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
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The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.
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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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