"In vain would I seek to discover Why……" — Heinrich Heine
"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."
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172 Quotes by Heinrich Heine
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What lies lurk in kisses.
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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
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Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
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There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.
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She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow…
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I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed,…
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In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious.
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Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
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Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk,…
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Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
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Atheism is the last word of theism
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at…
— George Eliot
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Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate…
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Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ.…
— Richard Sibbes
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The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended,…
— Kate Chopin
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When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.
— Thomas Head Raddall
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The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When…
— Eknath Easwaran
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Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.
— E. M. Forster
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One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is…
— Charles Dickens
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Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the…
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