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O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?
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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A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
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Dare to be wrong and to dream.
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Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?
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He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
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It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.
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If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.
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To know thyself--in others self-concern Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn!
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Never the grave gives back what it has won!
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Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.
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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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Stubbornness is not firmness.
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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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Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil under a thousand suns it dares act openly.
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Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Whether the birds fly right or left, whatever be the aspect of the stars, the book of nature is a maze, dreams are a lie, and every sign a falsehood.
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The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
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Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year.
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In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.
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When the gods were more manlike, Men were more godlike.
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