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Heinrich Heine
Age: 58 †
Born: 1797
Born: December 13
Died: 1856
Died: February 17
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Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.
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The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.
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Ask me not what I have, but what I am.
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The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling.
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Thought is invisible nature.
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The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
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The lotus flower is troubled At the sun's resplendent light With sunken head and sadly She dreamily waits for the night.
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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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Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.
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God will pardon me. It is His trade.
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Don't send a poet to London.
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The butterfly long loved the beautiful rose, And flirted around all day While round him in turn with her golden caress, Soft fluttered the sun's warm ray.... I know not with whom the rose was in love, But I know that I loved them all. The butterfly, rose, and the sun's bright ray, The star and the bird's sweet call.
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Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.
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The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on The mountain summit sparkles In the light of the setting sun.
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Be entirely tolerant or not at all follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.
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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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In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious.
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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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Write . . . write . . . pencil . . . paper.
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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.
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