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Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock Quotes

1724–1803 Germany

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (July 2, 1724 – March 14, 1803) was a German poet.

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Poets

Also known as: Klopstock

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He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Day's Collacon: an Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations (1884)

The God who created these fair heavens with the same facility as yon green sapling; he who hath bestowed on man a life of toil, of transient joys and fleeting pains, that he might not forget the higher worth of his enduring soul, and might feel that immortality waited for him beyond the grave;—He, he is one only God!

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