Friedrich Schiller Quotes
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The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
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The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
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I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, - through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.
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Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
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The universe is one of God's thoughts.
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Grosse Seelen dulden still.
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Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.
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A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
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O tender yearning, sweet hoping!The golden time of first love!The eye sees the open heaven,The heart is intoxicated with bliss;O that the beautiful time of young loveCould remain green forever.
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The reason passes, like the heart, through certain epochs and transitions, but its development is not so often portrayed. Men seem to have been satisfied with unfolding the passions in their extremes, their aberration, and their results, without considering how closely they are bound up with the intellectual constitution of the individual.
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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
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Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht.
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Appearance rules the world.
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Time is man's angel.
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He who considers too much will perform little.
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Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
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Have faith! where'er thy bark is driven,-'The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth,-Know this! God rules the host of heaven,The inhabitants of earth.
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Be embraced, ye millions!This kiss is for the whole world!Brothers, above the arch of starsA loving Father surely dwells.
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Appearance should never attain reality,And if nature conquers, then must art retire.
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Joy, in Nature's wide dominion,Mightiest cause of all is found;And 'tis joy that moves the pinion,When the wheel of time goes round
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The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.
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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
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Great souls suffer in silence.
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As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.