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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

~Franz Grillparzer

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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

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Topics: Around Brow Candid Disapproval Look Marked Me Nature Nowhere See Stamp Which Woman I See

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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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Topics: Another Art Differ Excursion Goal Journey Like Poetry Process Prose Purpose Same Science Token

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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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Topics: Course Drives Far Get Human Knowledge Ocean Out Row Sail Set Storm Those Want Who

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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

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Topics: Abundant Age Crowded Ideas Most Original Original Ideas Where

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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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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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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

~Franz Grillparzer

Topics: Be Thankful Drink Host Important Insignificant Need Seems Thankful You

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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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Topics: Made Seem Short Sky Someone Support Think Too Trees Were Would

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Poet

Born: January 15th, 1791

Died: January 21st, 1872

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