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Quotes from Forty Thousand Quotations — Johann Gottfried Herder

1744–1803 Germany

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It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

The roots of the deepest love die in the heart, if not tenderly cherished.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour. But friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadows, till the sun of life sets.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

The greatest cosmopolites are generally the neediest beggars, and they who embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part, love nothing but their narrow self.

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Man is a central creature between the animals, that is to say, the most perfect form, which unites the traits of all in the most complete epitome.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Whoever perseveres will be crowned.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

The working of revolutions misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Johann Gottfried Herder (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.