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• His saying was: live and let live.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Live Life, Live And Let Live

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• Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

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  Men, Nurse, Ordinary

  "Wallenstein" by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Act I, sc. iv, 1798.

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• Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal,
  Daughter of Elysium!
  Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing
  Goddess, to thy shrine we come.
  Thy sweet magic brings together
  What stern Custom spreads afar;
  All men become brothers
  Where thy happy wing-beats are.

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  Daughter, Sweet, Brother

  "Ode to Joy" by Friedrich Schiller, (Stanza 1), 1785.

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• The very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.

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  Light, Joyful, Plant

  Friedrich Schiller (1872). “The Works of Frederick Schiller”, p.469

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

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  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!

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  Broken, Promise, Sorrow

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

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• As soon as I have begun to fear I have ceased to fear.

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  Fear

  Friedrich Schiller, John TOWLER (of Carlsruhe.) (1843). “Don Carlos ... Translated Into English Heroic Metre ... by I. Towler”, p.39

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• Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.

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  Freedom, Men, Born

  "Die Worte des Glaubens", Stanza 2 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 294-296), 1922.

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• The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.

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  Reading, Ignorance, Thinking

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.3589, 谷月社

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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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• 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.

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  Past, Space, History

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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.

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  Spiritual, Encouragement, Art

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

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

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  Hero, Virtue, Fame

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

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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.

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  Real, Thinking, Artist

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

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  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.

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  Appreciation, Passion, Role Models

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

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  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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• 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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• I feel that I am a man of destiny.

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  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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• 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.

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  Greatness, Broken, Effort

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

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

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  Character, Self, Individual

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

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  Destiny, Men, May

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• Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

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  Time, Youth, Seducing

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• Obedience is the Christian's crown.

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  Christian, Crowns, Obedience

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

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

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  World, Judgment

  "Resignation" (1786)

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