Austrian - Poet | January 15, 1791 - January 21, 1872
I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
Franz Grillparzer
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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