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It is play and only play that makes man complete.
Friedrich Schiller
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Friedrich Schiller
Age: 45 †
Born: 1759
Born: November 10
Died: 1805
Died: May 9
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Great souls suffer in silence.
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The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.
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Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!
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Modest humility is beauty's crown.
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Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.
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If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flowerwhat the flower does willessly, that do willingly.
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Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.
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Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.
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Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.
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A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.
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On dreary night let lusty sunshine fall.
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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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All things must man is the only creature that wills.
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Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.
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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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For the world is only governed by self-interest.
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Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.
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Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
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Song forbids victorious deeds to die.
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