"Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose."
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"To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome."
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"I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music."
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"The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross."
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"Only the heart without a stain knows ease."
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"Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends."
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"If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much"
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"Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart."
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"Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!"
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"So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!"
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"Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys."
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"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."
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"One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand."
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"If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own."
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"The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems."
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"Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier. Each animal is an end in itself."
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"Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious."
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"Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect."
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"Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one."
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"We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others."
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