Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLEROn dreary night let lusty sunshine fall.
More Friedrich Schiller Quotes
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Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.
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Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.
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One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.
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The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.
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In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.
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Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
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Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.
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Every true genius is bound to be naive.
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Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
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What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.
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While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.
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The dream is short, repentance long.
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Love can sun the realms of night.
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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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Great souls endure in silence.
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Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.
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Ah, to that far distant strand Bridge there was not to convey, Not a bark was near at hand, Yet true love soon found the way.
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Joy all creatures drink At nature’s bosoms.
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There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
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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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Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions of us, forms our true honor.
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We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.
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Fate hath no voice but the heart’s impulse.
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Freedom can occur only through education.
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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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Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
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