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Schiller

1759 AD — 1805 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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The Maid of Orleans
Don Carlos
Adversity · anthology attribution: Schiller
Guilt · anthology attribution: Schiller
Mind · anthology attribution: Schiller
Occupation · anthology attribution: Schiller
Present · anthology attribution: Schiller
Sin · anthology attribution: Schiller
Woman · anthology attribution: Schiller
Printed citation: Schiller
Saying 33 · printed source label: Schiller · entry translator not specified
Saying 156 · printed source label: Schiller · entry translator not specified
Saying 519 · printed source label: Schiller · entry translator not specified
Page 227 · printed citation: Schiller · subject: FLOWERS
Page 288 · printed citation: Schiller · subject: HEART
Page 674 · printed citation: Schiller · subject: WISDOM
Page 2 · printed citation: Schiller · subject: Accident
Page 19 · printed citation: Schiller · subject: Art
Page 31 · printed citation: Schiller · subject: Bondage
Page 58 · printed citation: Schiller · subject: Death
Page 92 · printed citation: Schiller · subject: Forethought
Page 110 · printed citation: Schiller · subject: Guilt
Page 134 · printed citation: Schiller · subject: Innovation
Page 138 · printed citation: Schiller · subject: Jesting
Page 181 · printed citation: Schiller · subject: Name
Page 244 · printed citation: Schiller · subject: Soldier
Page 284 · printed citation: Schiller · subject: Zeal
Page 246 · printed citation: Schiller · subject: Sorrow
Printed page 8 · quotation 13 · Schiller · Wilhelm Tell
Printed page 11 · quotation 7 · Schiller · Wilhelm Tell

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01Undated

In thy breast are the stars of thy fate.

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02Undated

It is a kindly spirit which actually constitutes the human element in man.

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03Undated

It is a very risky, nay, a fatal thing, to be sociable.

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04Undated

It is not enough that a poet possess inspiration; his inspiration must be that of a cultured spirit.

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05Undated

It is often even wise to reveal what cannot long remain concealed.

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06Undated

It is only strict precision of thought that confers facility of expression.

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07Undated

It is the monotony of his own nature that makes solitude intolerable to a man.

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08Undated

Joy is the mainspring in the whole round of universal Nature; joy moves the wheels of the great timepiece of the world; she it is that loosens flowers from their buds, suns from their firmaments, rolling spheres in distant space not seen by the glass of the astronomer.

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09Undated

Kings are but the slaves of their position; they dare not follow what their own hearts dictate.

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10Undated

Knowledge is to one a goddess, to another only an excellent cow.

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11Undated

Labour is the ornament of the citizen; the reward of toil is when you confer blessings on others; his high dignity confers honour on the king; be ours the glory of our hands.

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12Undated

Law, man's sole guardian ever since the day when the old brazen age in sadness saw love fly the world.

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13Undated

Let no man measure by a scale of perfection the meagre product of reality.

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14Undated

Let not man tempt the gods, or ever desire to pry into what they graciously conceal under a veil of darkness or terror.

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15Undated

Let us not strive to rise too high, that we may not fall too low.

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16Undated

Liberty, with all its drawbacks, is everywhere vastly more attractive to a noble soul than good social order without it, than society like a flock of sheep, or a machine working like a watch. This mechanism makes of man only a product; liberty makes him the citizen of a better world.

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17Undated

Live with thy century, but be not its creature; produce for thy contemporaries, however, what they need, not what they applaud.

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18Undated

Man is an imitative creature, and whoever is foremost leads the herd.

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19Undated

Man is created free, is free, even if he were born in chains.

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20Undated

Man is made great or little by his own will.

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21Undated

Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the overmastering present.

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22Undated

Measure not by a scale of perfection the meagre product of reality.

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23Undated

Men of great intellect live in the world without really belonging to it.

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24Undated

Modest humility is beauty's crown, for the beautiful is a hidden thing, and shrinks from its own power.

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