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Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

Friedrich Schiller
Law, Duty, Enjoyment
Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.3006, 谷月社

Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

Friedrich Schiller
Iron, Chains, Silk

We must bear what Heaven sends.

Friedrich Schiller
Heaven, Bears

Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!

Friedrich Schiller
Destiny, Men, May

Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.

Friedrich Schiller
Honesty, Chains, Being True
Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.76

When the gods were more manlike, Men were more godlike.

Friedrich Schiller
Men, Godlike

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

Friedrich Schiller
Jealousy, Envy, Trifles
Friedrich Schiller (1849). “Early Dramas and Romances”, p.135

Sorrow is brief but joy is endless

Friedrich Schiller
Joy, Sorrow, Endless

Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.

Friedrich Schiller
Character, Self, Individual

Pain is short, and joy is eternal.

Friedrich Schiller
Pain, Joy, Eternal
"The Maid of Orleans". Book by Friedrich Schiller, 1801.

Joy is the mainspring in the whole Of endless Nature's calm rotation. Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll In the great Time-piece of Creation.

Friedrich Schiller
Moving, Joy, Wheels
Friedrich Schiller (1844). “Sammlung”, p.198

A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to all that limits and constrains it, but only by strength of will. Consequently the sublime soul is only free by broken efforts.

Friedrich Schiller
Greatness, Broken, Effort
Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.3528, 谷月社

I feel that I am a man of destiny.

Friedrich Schiller
Destiny, Men, Feels
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 190-92, Wallenstein's Tod, III, XV. 171, 1922.

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

Friedrich Schiller
Animal, Men, Hands
Friedrich Schiller, Elizabeth Mary Wilkinson, Leonard Ashley Willoughby (1967). “Schiller: Aesthetic education”, Oxford University Press, USA

Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.

Friedrich Schiller
Joy, Sorrow, Dies
Friedrich Schiller (1844). “Sammlung”, p.262

Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

Friedrich Schiller
Art, Rewards, Difficult

Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm himself at no home-lit hearth.

Friedrich Schiller
Home, Soldier, Lit

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.

Friedrich Schiller
Moving, Joy, Dominion
Friedrich Schiller (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete: Including All His Early Suppressed Pieces”, p.64

Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime.

Friedrich Schiller
Time, Past, Sublime
Friedrich Schiller, Edgar Alfred BOWRING (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete ... Attempted in English by E. A. Bowring”, p.259

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

Friedrich Schiller
Heart, Noble, Reason

Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.

Friedrich Schiller
Heart, Hypocrisy, Yoke
Friedrich Schiller (1864). “The Poems and Ballads of Schiller”, p.77

I have enjoyed earthly happiness, I have lived and loved.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Enjoyed

A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.

Friedrich Schiller
Queens, Names, Wife

Intellect--brain force.

Friedrich Schiller
Brain, Force, Intellect

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

Friedrich Schiller
Fighting, Men, Idols

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