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“Twelve dancers are dancing, and taking no rest,
And closely their hands together are press'd;
And soon as a dance has come to a close,
Another begins, and each merrily goes.”
Dancing Quotes Source: Dream and Life
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“In vain would I seek to discover
Why sad and mournful am I,
My thoughts without ceasing brood over
A tale of the time gone by.
[Ger., Ich weiss nicht was soll es bedeuten,
Dass ich so traurig bin:
Ein marchen aus alten Zeiten
Das kommt mir nicht aus dem Sinn.]”
Story telling Quotes Source: Die Lorelei, (E.A. Bowring's translation)
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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.”
Linden Quotes Source: Book of Songs--New Spring (no. 31, st. 3)
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“The oaks with solemnity shook their heads;
The twigs of the birch-trees, in token
Of warning, nodded,--and I exclaim'd:
"Dear Monarch, forgive what I've spoken!"”
Oak Quotes Source: Songs--Germany (caput XVII)
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“Thy letter sent to prove me,
Inflicts no sense of wrong;
No longer wilt thou love me,--
Thy letter, though is long.”
Post Quotes Source: Book of Songs--New Spring (no. 34)
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“I call'd the devil, and he came,
And with wonder his form did I closely scan;
He is not ugly, and is not lame,
But really a handsome and charming man.
A man in the prime of life is the devil,
Obliging, a man of the world, and civil;
A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate,
He talks quite glibly of church and state.”
Devil Quotes Source: Pictures of Travels--The Return Home (no. 37)
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“If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.”
Education Quotes |
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“God will pardon me. It is his trade.”
Last words Quotes |
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“In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses.”
Newspapers Quotes |
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“It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all.”
Vanity Quotes |
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“Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.”
Action Quotes |
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“The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it ... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.”
Adaptability Quotes |
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“Communism possesses a language which every people can understand--its elements are hunger, envy, and death.”
Communism Quotes |
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“You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.”
Computer / technology / science Quotes |
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“It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.”
Girls Quotes |
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“If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.”
Language Quotes |
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“When words leave off, music begins.”
Music Quotes |
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