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The dwarf standing on the shoulders of the giant can indeed see further than his supporter, especially if he puts on spectacles; but to such a lofty survey is wanted the elevated feeling, the giant-heart, to which we cannot lay claim.

— Heinrich Heine

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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

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Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

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Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.

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