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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
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Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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The real genres: good and bad.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
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Genius resembles a bell in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
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I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
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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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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
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In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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