Jacob Grimm Quotes

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• Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language.
• In olden times, when wishing still helped...
• The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the…
• Jacob wrote that the true poet 'is like a man who is happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he is allowed to look at leaves…
• How often when we are comfortable, we begin to long for something new!
• Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony.
• you shall tie the marriage knot with the ropemaker's daughter and the cawing of the crows will be your wedding song.
• I'm Death, and I make sure that everyone is equal.
• Turn back, turn back,thou pretty bride, Within this house thou must not abide. For here do evil things betide.
• My mother, she killed me, My father, he ate me, My sister Marlene, Gathered all my bones, Tied them in a silken scarf, Laid them…
• They were indeed great rascals, and belonged to that class of people who find things before they are lost.
• Love is like death, it must come to us all, but to each his own unique way and time, sometimes it will be avoided, but…
• Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right—all that falls to them is so much gain—all their…
• Lina said to Fundevogel: 'Never leave me, and I will never leave you.' Fundevogel said: 'Neither now, nor ever.' Then said Lina: 'Do you become…
• She'll sting you one day, Oh, ever so gently, so you hardly ever feel it. 'til you fall dead.
• Take me as godfather." The man asked, "Who art thou?" "I am Death, and I make all equal." Then said the man, "Thou art the…
• In the olden days, when wishing still worked, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest daughter was so lovely that…
• Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung…
• Then up he got with a light heart, free from all his troubles, and walked on till he reached his mother's house, and told her…
• He who is too well off is always longing for something new.

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