Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.
False fancy brings real misery.
O tender yearning, sweet hoping! The golden time of first love! The eye sees the open heaven, The heart is intoxicated with bliss; O that the beautiful time of young love Could remain green forever.
Great souls suffer in silence.
To save all we must risk all.
It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth.
Freedom exists only with power.
Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulse.
Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.
If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.
It is play and only play that makes man complete.
There is no solitude in nature.
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.
The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
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.
Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.
Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit. Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time.
The dream is short, repentance long.
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.
Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.
If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
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