Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.
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Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.
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It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth.
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Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.
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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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A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.
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Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
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What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor’s hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.
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Never the grave gives back what it has won!
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Speech is always bolder than action.
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If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.
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He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little.
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I follow my heart, for I can trust it.
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The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
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