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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.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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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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Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
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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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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.
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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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The real genres: good and bad.
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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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The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
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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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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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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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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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Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
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Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
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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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