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• Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Law, Duty, Enjoyment

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.3006, 谷月社

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• Joy is the mainspring in the whole
  Of endless Nature's calm rotation.
  Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll
  In the great Time-piece of Creation.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Moving, Joy, Wheels

  Friedrich Schiller (1844). “Sammlung”, p.198

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• O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Jealousy, Envy, Trifles

  Friedrich Schiller (1849). “Early Dramas and Romances”, p.135

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• Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Iron, Chains, Silk

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• Sorrow is brief but joy is endless

  Friedrich Schiller

  Joy, Sorrow, Endless

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• I feel that I am a man of destiny.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Destiny, Men, Feels

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 190-92, Wallenstein's Tod, III, XV. 171, 1922.

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• We must bear what Heaven sends.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Heaven, Bears

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• When the gods were more manlike, Men were more godlike.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Godlike

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• Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Honesty, Chains, Being True

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.76

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• Pain is short, and joy is eternal.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Pain, Joy, Eternal

  "The Maid of Orleans". Book by Friedrich Schiller, 1801.

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• A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to all that limits and constrains it, but only by strength of will. Consequently the sublime soul is only free by broken efforts.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Greatness, Broken, Effort

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.3528, 谷月社

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Destiny, Men, May

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Character, Self, Individual

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Home, Soldier, Lit

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• Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Animal, Men, Hands

  Friedrich Schiller, Elizabeth Mary Wilkinson, Leonard Ashley Willoughby (1967). “Schiller: Aesthetic education”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Deaf rage that hears no leader.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Anger, Leader, Deaf

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• Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Rewards, Difficult

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• Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Joy, Sorrow, Dies

  Friedrich Schiller (1844). “Sammlung”, p.262

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• Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion When the wheel of time goes round.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Moving, Joy, Dominion

  Friedrich Schiller (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete: Including All His Early Suppressed Pieces”, p.64

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Enjoyed

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Giving, Common

  Friedrich Schiller (1860). “The works of Frederick Schiller”, p.196

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• A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Heart, Noble, Reason

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• A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Thank You, Wedding, Guests

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.2262, Delphi Classics

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• A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Queens, Names, Wife

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• Like a dart the present glances,
  Silent stands the past sublime.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Time, Past, Sublime

  Friedrich Schiller, Edgar Alfred BOWRING (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete ... Attempted in English by E. A. Bowring”, p.259

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