Friedrich Schiller Quotes
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Friedrich Schiller Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
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.
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.
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 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.
misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.
Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told me in my childhood than any truth that is taught in life.
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!
O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold-
One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!
One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!
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.
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
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.
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.
Bridge there was not to convey,
Not a bark was near at hand,
Yet true love soon found the way.
The concrete life of the individual is destroyed in order that the abstract idea of the whole may drag out its sorry existence.