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• A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Stupid, People, Brave

  "Wallenstein's Lager", XI. 347 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 758), 1922.

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• We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Perfection, Complaining, Looks

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• Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Ideas, Judgement, Connections

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• We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Friendship, Men, Different

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• O the eye's light is a noble gift of Heaven! All beings live from light, each fair created thing; the very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Eye, Light, Heaven

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• 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

  Simple, Men, Law

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Bears, Reputation, Worst

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• Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Childhood, Taught, Fairy Tale

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• Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Winning, Shining, Crowns

  Friedrich Schiller (1871). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Historical and Dramatic”, p.318

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• The dream is short, repentance long.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Dream, Long, Repentance

  Friedrich Schiller (1842). “Das Lied von der Glocke, von Friedrich von Schiller: With english Translation by Thomas James Arnold”, p.11

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• Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Loss, Giving, Culture

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.34, 谷月社

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• Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Morning, Land, Gates

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “On The Aesthetic Education Of Man”, Lulu.com

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• Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his old house-furniture, the dear inheritance from his forefathers: For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Hands, Nurse

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.1260, 谷月社

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• If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is, above everything, necessary to have clearly before you what you require . . . It is certainly tasteless and inconsistent to desire to encompass the world with a garden-wall, but very practicable and reasonable to make a garden . . . into a characteristic whole to the eye, heart, and nderstanding alike.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Wall, Eye

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• No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Grief, Hands

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• Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Destiny, Prudent, Failing

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• In love, Jealousy is the great exaggerator.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Love Jealousy

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• I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Real, Fancy, Anticipation

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• Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Taken, Liberty, Crowds

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• Love can sun the realms of night.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Love, Night, Sun

  Friedrich Schiller (1844). “Sammlung”, p.278

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• Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Sports, Men, Feelings

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• The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Power, Literature, World

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• It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Family, Thank You, Fathers Day

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• The strong man is strongest when alone.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Strong, Men, Solitude

  Friedrich Schiller (1839). “William Tell: An Historical Play”, p.27

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• Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Abandon, Satisfied, Guardianship

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “On The Aesthetic Education Of Man”, p.52, Lulu.com

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