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Matrimony - the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin fi...

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Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into batt...

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Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought ...

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We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults until we at last come to look upon them as v...

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I once saw many flowers blooming Upon my way, in indolence I scorned to pick them in my going And pa...

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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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It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption after enjoying so much that is good an...

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Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Where words leave off, music begins.

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

When words leave off music begins.

Of course God will forgive me that's His job.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

God will forgive me. That's his business.

When words leave off, music begins.

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

God will pardon me. It's his business.

First, I thought, almost despairing,This must crush my spirit now;Yet I bore it, and am bearing-Only...

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Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people

And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she comb...

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If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure then believe.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the w...

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One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.

He always maintained that we fear something because we recognize it as fearsome through rational inf...

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Die Harzreise

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

God will forgive me that is His business.

When the heroes go off the stage the clowns come on.

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted for how can he bring himself to believe in the ...

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With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters,He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the ...

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A pine tree standeth lonelyIn the North on an upland bare;It standeth whitely shroudedWith snow, and...

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Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the...

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Iron helmets will not save/Even heroes from the grave/Good man's blood will drain away/While the wic...

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You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, an...

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God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents th...

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I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth and what we can enjoy...

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The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

Lieb Liebchen, leg ‘s Händchen aufs Herze mein; -Ach, hörst du, wie’s pochet im Kämmerlein,Da hauset...

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Das Buch der Lieder

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Heinrich Heine

Poet

Born: 1797-12-13

Died: 1856-02-17

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (December 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856) was a journalist, an essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets. Jewish by birth, he converted to Lutheran Christianity as an adult.More