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Heinrich Heine
Age: 58 †
Born: 1797
Born: December 13
Died: 1856
Died: February 17
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If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover Therefore are the lindens ever Chosen seats of each fond lover.
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Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.
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The gazelles so gentle and clever Skip lightly in frolicsome mood.
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In action, the English have the advantage enjoyed by free men always entitled to free discussion: of having a ready judgment on every question. We Germans, on the other hand, are always thinking. We think so much that we never form a judgment.
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Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.
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Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.
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Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too.
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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.
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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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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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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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Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.
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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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Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.
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Matrimony the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
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Out of my great sorrows, I make little songs.
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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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He that marries is like the dogs who was married to the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which he marries mayhap treasures and pearls, mayhap monsters and tempests, await him.
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A brainiac notices everything, an ignoramus comments about everything.
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