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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.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Bliss Forever Gold Heaven Hope Love Sweet Time Yearning
The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Born Inspirational Mountain Oneself
A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Beautiful Existence Self Love Soul
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Age Greatness Power Service Swear Talent Utility
The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Emperor Freedom Himself King Man Pride
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Complete Himself Man Meaning Play Word
You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Forgiveness Himself Weakness Yourself
The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Burning Genius Life Quick
Sorrow is brief but joy is endless.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Brief End Happiness Sorrow
It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Change Dignity Endurance Himself Learning Man
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Errors Fatigue Greatness Humanity Struggle
This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Action Curse Evil
Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Enthusiasm Flame Himself
It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Accomplishment Approach Dangerous Listening Nature
Life did not present its sunny side to thee.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Life Present Side Sun Yourself
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Fame Greatness Life Live Name Noble Possession
Courage, ne’er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Break Courage Enemy Friendship Sorrow Truth
The lemonade is weak, like your soul.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Soul Weakness Yourself
Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Chain Iron Silk
Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Childhood Deep Fairy Tale Life Myself Reside Teaching
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.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Beautiful Feeling Gate Knowledge Morning Truth Yourself
Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Disappointment Soul Storm
There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Existence Life Pleasant Time
Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Century Dare List Myself
It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Evidence Justice Majority Mass Right
Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Chain Last Time True
A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants’ wives must contest together.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Goodness Name Precious Togetherness

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