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E T A Hoffmann has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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As the priest is characterized by his cassock, so the smoker by his pipe. The way in which he holds it, raises…
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Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because some feeble soul…
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It is only in the morning that one should marry, read unfavourable reviews, make one's will, beat one's servants, and so forth.
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Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.
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It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
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It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
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Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which…
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Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during…
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I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some vivid dream…
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How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it…
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try.…
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Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most…
— Gerry Spence
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All who wait upon the Lord shall rise higher and higher upon the mighty pinions of strong devotion, and with the unblinking…
— John Angell James
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
— E T A Hoffmann
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And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us…
— Desmond Tutu
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The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits…
— William Blake
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Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.
— Aesop
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When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to…
— Khalil Gibran
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Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that…
— Charles Baudelaire
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To Hope "When by my solitary hearth I sit, And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom; When no fair dreams before…
— John Keats
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The raven red, on ruby pinions winging its way between the worlds, hears dead men singing. It scarce knows it strength, the…
— Kerstin Gier
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Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.
— Friedrich Schiller
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