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Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.

Satisfy a few to please many is bad.

The man of courage thinks not of himself. Help the oppressed and put thy trust in God.

The May of life blooms once and never again.

It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.

Obedience is the Christian's crown.

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

Death is not too high a price for this - This taste of heaven -

Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.

Have hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow - No night but hath its morn.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception ...

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.

Obedience decks the Christian most.

World history is the world's court

Have faith! where'er thy bark is driven, 'The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, Know this! God rules the host of heaven, The inhabitants of earth.

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

The mind is the eyesight of the soul.

Stern is the visage of necessity.

O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved.

Virtue is no empty echo.

The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

Art is the right hand of Nature.

Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life.

I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.

Secrecy is for the happy,
misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.

Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

It is play and only play that makes man complete.

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.

To the fool-king belongs the world.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice

I am called The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my dominion never sets.

Freedom can occur only through education.

Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion.

Dare to be wrong and to dream.

Joy all creatures drink At nature's bosoms ...

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

What is the short meaning of the long speech?

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

Man is only fully human when he plays!

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

I follow my heart, for I can trust it.

Even weak men when united are powerful.

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

We shall be free, just as our fathers were.

Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing.

A deep meaning often lies in old customs.

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told me in my childhood than any truth that is taught in life.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Freedom exists only with power.

O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold-
One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!

Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.

Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year.

So it has reached this pass? Obedience and fear take flight together?

Wine invents nothing; it only tattles.

In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

From the moment fear begins I have ceased to fear.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

I have enjoyed earthly happiness,
I have lived and loved.

Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

The universe is a thought of God.

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.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.

O friends, no more these sounds!
Let us sing more cheerful songs, more full of joy!

What's old collapses, times change, and new life blossoms in the ruins.

Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.

Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.

Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger.

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.

The brave person thinks of himself last of all.

Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

The concrete life of the individual is destroyed in order that the abstract idea of the whole may drag out its sorry existence.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.

If you want to study yourself, look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people, look into your own heart.

The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.

Live with your century, but do not be its creature.

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.