"Some men are born to good luck: all……" — Jacob Grimm
"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 geese are swans—all their cards are trumps—toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster. The world may very likely not always think of them as they think of themselves, but what care they for the world? what can it know about the matter?"
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20 Quotes by Jacob Grimm
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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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The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives that…
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On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the…
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— Pope John XXIII
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It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.
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Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a…
— Tahir Shah
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Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels…
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When you find your purpose, it is like your heart has been set alight with passion. You know it absolutely,…
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All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned this…
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One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.
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The road comes to an end just when it ought to be getting somewhere. The passengers alight, shaken and weary,…
— Stephen Leacock
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