"He who is too well off is always…" — Jacob Grimm
"He who is too well off is always longing for something new."
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20 Quotes by Jacob Grimm
Jacob Grimm has 20 quotes on this site.
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Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language.
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In olden times, when wishing still helped...
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The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves…
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Jacob wrote that the true poet 'is like a man who is happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he is…
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How often when we are comfortable, we begin to long for something new!
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Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony.
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you shall tie the marriage knot with the ropemaker's daughter and the cawing of the crows will be your wedding…
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I'm Death, and I make sure that everyone is equal.
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Turn back, turn back,thou pretty bride, Within this house thou must not abide. For here do evil things betide.
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My mother, she killed me, My father, he ate me, My sister Marlene, Gathered all my bones, Tied them in…
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They were indeed great rascals, and belonged to that class of people who find things before they are lost.
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Love is like death, it must come to us all, but to each his own unique way and time, sometimes…
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I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt…
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Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow…
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I cannot sufficiently be astonished that such is the insanity of some men, such the impiety of their blinded understanding,…
— Vincent of Lerins
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We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to…
— Charles Lamb
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We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no…
— Paul Tournier
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A thousand recollected lives were passing through her, a thousand stories - of love and work, of parents and children,…
— Justin Cronin
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More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the…
— Mark Twain
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People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.
— Bodhidharma
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