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.
Novalis
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
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Joseph E. Stiglitz 
Ray Charles 
Lucien Bouchard 
Arthur Calwell 
Sam Donaldson 
Dirk Bogarde 
Michael Flatley 
Jacques Chirac