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No talent, but yet a character. [Ger., Kein talent, doch ein Charakter.]

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Heinrich Heine
Age: 58 †
Born: 1797
Born: December 13
Died: 1856
Died: February 17
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Dusseldorf
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine
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Newness hath an evanescent beauty.
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In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.
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The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.
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You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
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On the waves of the brook she dances by, The light, the lovely dragon-fly She dances here, she dances there, The shimmering, glimmering flutterer fair. And many a foolish young beetle's impressed By the blue gauze gown in which she is dressed They admire the enamel that decks her bright, And her elegant waist so slim and slight.
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The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.
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It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
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So we keep asking, over and over,Until a handful of earthStops our mouths -But is that an answer?
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He only profits from praise who values criticism.
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Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity.
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The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
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Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain - These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain. Perhaps with ancient heathen shapes, Old faded gods, this brain is full Who, for their most unholy rites, Have chosen a dead poet's skull.
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Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid
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If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
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Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too.
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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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