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He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.
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 propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.
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Ask me not what I have, but what I am.
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Don't send a poet to London.
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The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above.
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