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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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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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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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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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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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The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
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What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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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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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
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Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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It's actually the spirit helping the spirit it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.
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Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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