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How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.

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
Keener
Eagle
Eagles
Blindness
Blind
Sight
Young
Love

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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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The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.
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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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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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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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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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A love that dies has never lived.
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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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