Quotes from authors born in 1772
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
Novalis
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Gore Vidal 
Johnny Mathis 
Herbert Marshall 
Neil Young 
Evan Rachel Wood