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1797–1856 Germany
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (December 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856) was a journalist, an essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets. Jewish by birth, he converted to Lutheran Christianity as an adult.
Germany Essayists Journalists Poets Socialists Also known as: Heine, Heine, Heinrich, Henrich Heine
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Darling maiden, who can be
When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of ridicule or of calumny. No one shall be more virtuous or more intellectually gifted than others. Whoever, by the irresistible force of genius, rises above the common herd is certain to be ostracized by society, which will pursue him with such merciless derision and detraction that at last he will be compelled to retreat into the solitude of his thoughts.
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
Misattributed James Harrington in The Commonwealth of Oceana (1656)
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
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Money bequeathed to my wife "on the express condition that she remarry. I want at least one person to be truly bereaved by my death."
Disputed Testamentary Will of Heinrich Heine (1856)
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