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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
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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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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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
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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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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
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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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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
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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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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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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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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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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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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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