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Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if

Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one's enemies-- but not before they have been hanged.

Heinrich Heine
Flower, Heart, Humble

The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.

Heinrich Heine
Heart, Men, Years

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

Heinrich Heine
Heart, People, Revolution

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling...

Heinrich Heine
Dream, Flower, Heart
"Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos".

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

Heinrich Heine
Heart, Break, Ifs

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

Heinrich Heine
Inspiring, Moving, Heart
Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.17

If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover; Therefore are the lindens ever Chosen seats of each fond lover.

Heinrich Heine
Heart, Lovers, Form
Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.190

If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.

Heinrich Heine
Writing, Heart, Mass
Heinrich Heine (1973). “Memoirs, from His Works, Letters, and Conversations”

As the stars are the glory of the sky, so great men are the glory of their country, yea, of the whole earth. The hearts of great men are the stars of earth; and doubtless when one looks down from above upon our planet, these hearts are seen to send forth, a silvery light just like the stars of heaven.

Heinrich Heine
Country, Stars, Heart
Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”

In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May when all the birds were singing, then did I reveal to her my yearning and longing.

Heinrich Heine
Heart, Bird, Singing

He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.

Heinrich Heine
Heart, Coward, Venture
Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”

But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. Lucky dogs! they already knew in their cradles the nouns ending in im. I on the contrary had to learn it by heart, in the sweat of my brow.

Heinrich Heine
Dog, Latin, Heart
Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.183

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