Friedrich Schiller Quotes
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Live with your century; but do not be its creature.
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I feel an army in my fist.
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Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
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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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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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Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
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Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.
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They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
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Grosse Seelen dulden still.
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He who considers too much will perform little.
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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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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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Time is man's angel.
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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.
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Appearance rules the world.
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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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This feat of Tell, the archer, will be toldWhile yonder mountains stand upon their base.By heaven! The apple's cleft right through the core.
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Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
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In circumstances where the law of force prevails, where security depends on power alone, the weakest party is naturally the most busy to place itself in a posture of defense.
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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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Appearance should never attain reality,And if nature conquers, then must art retire.
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What are hopes, what are plans?