Friedrich Schiller Quotes
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Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
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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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Self Confidence has always been the parent of great actions.
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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.
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Time is man's angel.
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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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I feel an army in my fist.
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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
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He who considers too much will perform little.
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What are hopes, what are plans?
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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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There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
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In thy breast are the stars of thy fate.
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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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His Armies, weakened by defeat and defeat, dispirited by misfortune, had unlearned - under beaten generals - that warlike impetuosity which as it is the consequence, so it is the guarentee of success.
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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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Freedom can occur only through education.
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Don't let your heart depend on thingsThat ornament life in a fleeting way!He who possesses, let him learn to lose,He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.
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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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The lemonade is weak, like your soul.
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Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.