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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.

Franz Grillparzer

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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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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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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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Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.
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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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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.
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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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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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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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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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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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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.
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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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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
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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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Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!
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The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!
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