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It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
Friedrich Schiller
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Friedrich Schiller
Age: 45 †
Born: 1759
Born: November 10
Died: 1805
Died: May 9
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Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller
Johann C. F. Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller
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Fridrikh Shiller
Fridrikh Shiler
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Frideriko Schiller
Joh. Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Frederick Schiller
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Friedrich von Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.
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The hat is the pride of man for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.
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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.
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To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.
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There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom.
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Even weak men when united are powerful.
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A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.
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It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.
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