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Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock was a German poet. His best known work is the epic poem Der Messias . One of his major contributions to German literature was to open it up to exploration outside of French models. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. July 1724 – 14. March 1803
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Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock Quotes

“He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.”

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

As quoted in Day's Collacon: an Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations (1884), p. 639

“The God who created these fair heavens with the same facility as yon green sapling; he who hath bestowed on man a life of toil, of transient joys and fleeting pains, that he might not forget the higher worth of his enduring soul, and might feel that immortality waited for him beyond the grave;—He, he is one only God!”

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

The Messiah, VII. 460; as quoted in Beautiful thoughts from German and Spanish authors (1868) by C.T. Ramage, p. 240

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