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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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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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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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I understand the phrase Honor the Women all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.
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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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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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Ideas are not thoughts the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
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Servants honor their master by their service.
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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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