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He only profits from praise who values criticism.
Heinrich Heine
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Heinrich Heine
Age: 58 †
Born: 1797
Born: December 13
Died: 1856
Died: February 17
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Christian Johann Heinrich Heine
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Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.
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Matrimony the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
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The negro king desired to be portrayed as white. But do not laugh at the poor African for every man is but another negro king, and would like to appear in a color different from that with which Fate has bedaubed him.
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My heart resembles the ocean has storm, and ebb and flow and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below.
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Twelve Dancings are dancing, and taking no rest, And closely their hands together are press'd And soon as a dance has come to a close, Another begins, and each merrily goes.
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In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious.
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Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers... are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover sounds chance to fall upon their ears.
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Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. Oh, what lies there are in kisses!
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Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
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Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.
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No talent, but yet a character. [Ger., Kein talent, doch ein Charakter.]
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Newness hath an evanescent beauty.
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Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
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Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.
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Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.
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Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.
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In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.
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Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
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The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again, and call that speaking. Fortunately they are by nature fairly silent, and although they gaze at us open-mouthed, they spare us long conversations.
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And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They sail along, and a ringing Sweet melody rises on high And when the swans begin singing, They presently must die.
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