Friedrich Schiller Quotes

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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 love
Could remain green forever.

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Virtue has her heroes too
As well as Fame and Fortune.

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One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.

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You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.

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If man is ever to solve that problem of politics in practice he will have to approach it through the problem of the aesthetic, because it is only through Beauty that man makes his way to Freedom.

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What is not abandoned is never completely lost.

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Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken!
Aid where tears of virtue flow;
Faith to keep each promise spoken!
Truth alike to friend and foe!

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Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others.
Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

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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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Twenty-three years old,
and I've done nothing for my immortality!

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Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year.

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Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last!
Loitering slow, the Future creepeth —
Arrow-swift, the Present sweepeth —
And motionless forever stands the Past.

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The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear.

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Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

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The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

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Don't let your heart depend on things
That 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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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 dignity of man into your hands is given;
Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.

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O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold-
One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!

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There's no such thing as chance;
And what to us seems merest accident
Springs from the deepest source of destiny.

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What is the short meaning of the long speech?

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Just because thou readest in Nature what thou hast written, Just because thine eye all her phenomena marks, Reckoning on the bonds which man upon Nature imposes, Does thy mind presume infinite Nature to know?

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

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Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,
Resplendent daughter of the head divine,
Wise foundress of the system of the world,
Guide of the stars, who art thou then if thou,
Bound to the tail of folly's uncurbed steed,
Must, vainly shrieking with the drunken crowd,
Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.
Accursed, who striveth after noble ends,
And with deliberate wisdom forms his plans!
To the fool-king belongs the world.

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