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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish play. — Friedrich Schiller

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny. — Friedrich Schiller

Obedience is the Christian's crown. — Friedrich Schiller

Man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is only fully a human being when he plays — Friedrich Schiller

To save all we must risk all. — Friedrich Schiller

The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody. — Friedrich Schiller

Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits. — Friedrich Schiller

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit. — Friedrich Schiller

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar? — Friedrich Schiller

The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate. — Friedrich Schiller

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you. — Friedrich Schiller

Dear is my friend
yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good:
My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should. — Friedrich Schiller

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. — Friedrich Schiller

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

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. — Friedrich Schiller

The mind is the eyesight of the soul. — Friedrich Schiller

There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself. — Friedrich Schiller

Fear of death is worse than dying. — Friedrich Schiller

The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies. — Friedrich Schiller

As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment. — Friedrich Schiller

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages. — Friedrich Schiller

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever. — Friedrich Schiller

I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved. — Friedrich Schiller

Art is the right hand of Nature. — Friedrich Schiller

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

Innocence has a friend in heaven. — Friedrich Schiller

Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check? — Friedrich Schiller

Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them. — Friedrich Schiller

Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly. — Friedrich Schiller

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

Fate always wins, for our own heart within us Imperiously furthers its designs. — Friedrich Schiller

Who reflects too much will accomplish little. — Friedrich Schiller

Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm himself at no home-lit hearth. — Friedrich Schiller

The will of man is his happiness. — Friedrich Schiller

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. — Friedrich Schiller

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

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

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long. — Friedrich Schiller

Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality. — Friedrich Schiller

The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it. — Friedrich Schiller

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

It is a ring that makes a marriage and it is from rings that chains are made. — Friedrich Schiller

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad. — Friedrich Schiller

But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides? — Friedrich Schiller

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

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain. — Friedrich Schiller

Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder! — Friedrich Schiller

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

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

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

The dignity of man into your hands is given;
Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven. — Friedrich Schiller

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

Votes should be weighed not counted. — Friedrich Schiller

Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away. — Friedrich Schiller

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine. — Friedrich Schiller

The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds. — Friedrich Schiller

Let no one despair,
even though in the darkest night
the last star of hope my disappear.
Friedrich Schiller — Rick Yancey

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

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

As soon as I have begun to fear I have ceased to fear. — Friedrich Schiller

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. — Friedrich Schiller

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases. — Friedrich Schiller

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life. — Friedrich Schiller

The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor. — Friedrich Schiller

For the world is only governed by self-interest. — Friedrich Schiller

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

He who considers too much will perform little. — Friedrich Schiller

The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear. — Friedrich Schiller

I have enjoyed earthly happiness,
I have lived and loved. — Friedrich Schiller

The dignity of mankind is in your hands; protect it!
It sinks with you! With you it will ascend. — Friedrich Schiller

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds. — Friedrich Schiller

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual. — Friedrich Schiller

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are. — Friedrich Schiller

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom. — Friedrich Schiller

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

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims. — Friedrich Schiller

Speech is always bolder than action. — Friedrich Schiller

Where there is much freedom there is much error. — Friedrich Schiller

Modest humility is beauty's crown. — Friedrich Schiller

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results. — Friedrich Schiller

The universe is a thought of God. — Friedrich Schiller

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. — Friedrich Schiller

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

Truth is more than a dream and a song. — Friedrich Schiller

Every man stamps his value on himself ... man is made great or small by his own will. — Friedrich Schiller

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

The lemonade is weak, like your soul. — Friedrich Schiller

To know thyself
in others self-concern;
Would'st thou know others? read thyself
and learn! — Friedrich Schiller

He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has. — Friedrich Schiller

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

When I hate I rob myself of something; but when I love I become richer by the object I love. — Friedrich Schiller

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. — Friedrich Schiller

Freedom exists only with power. — Friedrich Schiller

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

Weep, for the light is dead. — Friedrich Schiller

While the gods remained more human, the men were more divine. — Friedrich Schiller

Wine invents nothing; it only tattles. — Friedrich Schiller

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

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! — Friedrich Schiller

From the moment fear begins I have ceased to fear. — Friedrich Schiller