A healthy nature needs no God or immortality.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
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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As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
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Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.
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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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Fear of death is worse than dying.
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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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Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.
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Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.
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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.
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This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.
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Misery travels free through the whole world!
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Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
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