Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

(16 votes)   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.

Friedrich Schiller
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(335 votes)   As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

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(245 votes)   No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

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(234 votes)   One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

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(188 votes)   If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

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(164 votes)   While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

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(158 votes)   Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

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(114 votes)   Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

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(107 votes)   This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

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(103 votes)   Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

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(98 votes)   Wise to resolve, patient to perform.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

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(97 votes)   Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

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(95 votes)   He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

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(91 votes)   He that is over -- cautious will accomplish little.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

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(91 votes)   The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

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