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My son, there's nothing insignificant,Nothing! But yet in every earthly thingFirst and most principal is place and time.
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There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
Friedrich Schiller
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Every true genius is bound to be naive.
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Appearance rules the world.
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Der Menscheit Würde ist in Eure Hand gegeben, bewahret Sie! Sie sinkt mit euch! Mit euch wird sie sich heben!
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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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The intelligible forms of ancient poets,The fair humanities of old religion,The power, the beauty, and the majestyThat had their haunts in dale or piny mountain,Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring,Or chasms and watery depths, - all these have vanished;They live no longer in the faith of reason.
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It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
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Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.
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We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissable, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?
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Bow before him, all creation!Mortals, own the God of love!Seek him high the stars above,-Yonder is his habitation!
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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
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Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
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Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
Friedrich Schiller
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Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
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It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
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O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?
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Joy from truth's own glass of fireSweetly on the searcher smiles;Lest on virtue's steeps he tire,Joy the tedious path beguiles.High on faith's bright hill before us,See her banner proudly wave!Joy, too, swells the angels' chorus,- Bursts the bondage of the grave!
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When the wine goes in, strange things come out.
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Lo, the dead shall rise to heaven!Brethren hail the blest decree;Every sin shall be forgiven,Hell forever cease to be!
Friedrich Schiller
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Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.
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No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
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On the mountains there is freedom!The world is perfect everywhere,Save where man comes with his torment.
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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.
Friedrich Schiller