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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
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Friedrich Schiller
Age: 45 †
Born: 1759
Born: November 10
Died: 1805
Died: May 9
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No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
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Fate always wins, for our own heart within us Imperiously furthers its designs.
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If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.
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We are too prone to find fault let us look for some of the perfections.
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Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.
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Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.
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Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.
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Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.
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There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.
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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
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It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
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Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven, - The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, - Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven, The habitants of earth.
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Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.
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One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.
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