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People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
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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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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
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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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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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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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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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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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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
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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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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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