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Men Quotes by Heinrich Heine
- Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
- Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
- Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
- Das war ein vorspeil nur; That was only a prelude; dort wo man Buecher verbrennt, Where one burns books, vebrennt man auch am Ende One…
- A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
- The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.
- 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…
- It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
- The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
- Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
- In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads…
- Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men, and rocks them up to manhood; and this meager foster-mother remains their faithful companion throughout…
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