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Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.
Friedrich Schiller
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Friedrich Schiller
Age: 45 †
Born: 1759
Born: November 10
Died: 1805
Died: May 9
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Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.
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It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
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Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal, Daughter of Elysium! Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing Goddess, to thy shrine we come. Thy sweet magic brings together What stern Custom spreads afar All men become brothers Where thy happy wing-beats are.
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In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.
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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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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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No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
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Joy all creatures drink At nature's bosoms.
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Great souls endure in silence.
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To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.
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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.
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This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.
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What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.
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In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.
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No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.
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Accursed be he who plays with the devil.
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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
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