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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

Franz Grillparzer

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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Surpass
Exaggerate
Recourse
Progress
Cannot
Always

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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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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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A love that dies has never lived.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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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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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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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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An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
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Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
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A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
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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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