Friedrich Schiller Quotes - Page 13

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• To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fighting, Power, Crowns

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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!

  Friedrich Schiller

  Broken, Promise, Sorrow

  Friedrich Schiller (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete: Including All His Early Suppressed Pieces”, p.65

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• History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppressively, and with a kind of optical illusion, expands his short existence into endless space, leading the individual imperceptibly over into humanity.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Past, Space, History

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• Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Hero, Virtue, Fame

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.545

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• Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spiritual, Encouragement, Art

  "Literary and philosophical essays: French, German, and Italian", Collier, Volume 32, sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1910.

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• You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Real, Thinking, Artist

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• The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Work, Done, May

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.224

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• It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

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  Writing, Creativity, Ideas

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• To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Kindness, Poison, Milk

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 609-10, Wilhelm Tell, IV. 3. 3, 1922.

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• Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Appreciation, Passion, Role Models

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• Obedience is the Christian's crown.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Christian, Crowns, Obedience

  Friedrich Schiller (1864). “The Poems and Ballads of Schiller”, p.77

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• Obedience decks the Christian most.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Christian, Obedience, Deck

  Friedrich Schiller (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete: Including All His Early Suppressed Pieces”, p.177

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Needs, Veils, Sun

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• Misery travels free through the whole world!

  Friedrich Schiller

  World, Misery, Whole

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.583

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• What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Hands, Giving

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Wind, Storm

  "Wilhelm Tell", IV. 1. 59, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 753-54, 1922.

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• Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

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  Time, Youth, Seducing

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• We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Hours, Claims

  "An die Freude", Stanza 1 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• Never the grave gives back what it has won!

  Friedrich Schiller

  Giving, Giving Back, Graves

  "Funeral Fantasy" by Friedrich Schiller,

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Soldier, Looks

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• I feel an army in my fist.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Army, Fists, Feels

  "The Robbers". Play by Friedrich Schiller, 1781.

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• 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.

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  Spring, Blood, Years

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• In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.

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  Men, Goal, Forget

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.1158, 谷月社

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• Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven, -
  The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, -
  Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven,
  The habitants of earth.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Heaven, Earth, Have Faith

  "The Common School Journal" edited by Horace Mann, Vol. IX, (p. 386), 1847.

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• The world's history is the world's judgment.

  Friedrich Schiller

  World, Judgment

  "Resignation" (1786)

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