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You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.Unknown
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.Unknown
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.Unknown
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If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile.. .so fair thou art.Unknown
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You are aware of only one unrest; Oh, never learn to know the other! Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast, And one is striving to forsake its brother. Unto the world in grossly loving zest, With clinging tendrils, one adheres; The other rises forcibly in quest Of rarefied ancestral spheres. If there be spirits in the air That hold their sway between the earth and sky, Descend out of the golden vapors there And sweep me into iridescent life. Oh, came a magic cloak into my hands To carry me to distant lands, I should not trade it for the choicest gown, Nor for the cloak and garments of the crown. .Unknown
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Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.Unknown
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Schade dass die Natur nur einen Mensch aus dir schuf / denn zum wurdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff" (loose translation: nature, alas, made only one being out of you although there was material for a good man & a rogue)Unknown
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The world turns gray, the air grows cool, the fog blows in. Only at evening can you really value home.Unknown
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Grant me one hour on love’s most sacred shores To clasp the bosom that my soul adores, Lie heart to heart and merge my soul with yours.Unknown
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The Church has an excellent appetite. She has swallowed whole countries and the question Has never risen of indigestion. Only the Church. .. can take Ill-gotten goods without stomach-ache!Unknown
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Everything transitory is but an image.Unknown