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.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.
More Friedrich Schiller Quotes
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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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The history of the world is the world’s court of justice.
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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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No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,–the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.
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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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Pain is short, and joy is eternal.
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I am my own heaven and hell!
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Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.
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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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Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
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Around, around, Companions all, take your ground, And name the bell with joy profound! CONCORDIA is the word we’ve found Most meet to express the harmonious sound, That calls to those in friendship bound.
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The mind is the eyesight of the soul.
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Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.
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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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The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.
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