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It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new.
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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The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang.
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The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
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He only profits from praise who values criticism.
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As the stars are the glory of the sky, so great men are the glory of their country, yea, of the whole earth. The hearts of great men are the stars of earth and doubtless when one looks down from above upon our planet, these hearts are seen to send forth, a silvery light just like the stars of heaven.
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A brainiac notices everything, an ignoramus comments about everything.
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Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.
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Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.
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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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While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.
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The gazelles so gentle and clever Skip lightly in frolicsome mood.
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It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.
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Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.
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Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.
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You talk of our having an idea we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not.
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Each violet peeps from its dwelling to gaze at the bright stars above.
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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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He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.
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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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Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. Oh, what lies there are in kisses!
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Ask me not what I have, but what I am.
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