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Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten Quotes

1758–1818 Germany

Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten (1 February 1758 – 26 October 1818), later adopting the second name Theobul or Theoboul, was a German poet, Lutheran preacher and a professor of history at the University of Greifswald. His son Gottfried became an orientalist and historian.

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"Son," said the old man," hast thou then never read,
'When men are dumb, the stones shall cry aloud'?—
Henceforward mock not, son, the word of God!
Living it is, and mighty, cutting sharp,
Like a two-edged sword. And when the heart
Of flesh grows hard and stubborn as the stone,
A heart of flesh shall stir in stones themselves!

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.