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They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Age: 86 †
Born: 1830
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.
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Those whom we support hold us up in life.
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Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.
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Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
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Conquer, but don't triumph.
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Believe flatterers and you're lost believe your enemies and you despair.
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Those who know nothing must believe everything.
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If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
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Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.
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Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
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Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
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We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?
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n every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude.
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The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.
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