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Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
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
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Joh. Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
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Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
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Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.
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It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part.
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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
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Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.
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Dare to be wrong and to dream.
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It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
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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.
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Where there is much freedom there is much error.
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O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!
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Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found And 'tis joy that moves the pinion When the wheel of time goes round.
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Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
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I follow my heart, for I can trust it.
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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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Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.
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