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The key to education is the experience of beauty.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

Friedrich Schiller
Beauty, Keys, Literature
Friedrich Schiller, Goethe Society of India (2007). “Schiller and Aesthetic Education Today”

Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.

Friedrich Schiller
Grief, Heart, Mourning

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

Friedrich Schiller
Wise, Doubt, Investing
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 6-9, Wilhelm Tell, III. 1. 72, 1922.

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.

Friedrich Schiller
Inspirational, Wise, Dream
Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.795, 谷月社

We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.

Friedrich Schiller
Perfection, Complaining, Looks

Love guides the stars towards each other, the world plan endures only through love.

Friedrich Schiller
Sweet, Stars, World

Freedom can occur only through education.

Friedrich Schiller
Education
Friedrich Schiller, Goethe Society of India (2007). “Schiller and Aesthetic Education Today”

Modest humility is beauty's crown.

Friedrich Schiller
Humility, Crowns, Modest

The universe is a thought of God.

Friedrich Schiller
Universe
Friedrich Schiller, Helga Zepp-LaRouche (2015). “Friedrich Schiller Poet of Freedom Volume III”, p.189, Executive Intelligence Review

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.

Friedrich Schiller
Giving, Eternity, Minutes
"Resignation" by Friedrich Schiller, Stanza 18, 1786.

Far must thy researches go Wouldst thou learn the world to know; Thou must tempt the dark abyss Wouldst thou prove what Being is; Naught but firmness gains the prize, Naught but fullness makes us wise, Buried deep truth e'er lies.

Friedrich Schiller
Wise, Lying, Knowledge
Friedrich Schiller, “The Proverbs Of Confucius”

Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Women, Rose

Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.

Friedrich Schiller
Live Life, Heart, Sorrow
Friedrich Schiller, Henry George Bohn (1849). “Works”, p.80

O tender yearning, sweet hoping! The golden time of first love! The eye sees the open heaven, The heart is intoxicated with bliss; O that the beautiful time of young love Could remain green forever.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Beautiful, Sweet
"The Song of the Bell". Poem by Friedrich Schiller, 1799.

For the world is only governed by self-interest.

Friedrich Schiller
Self, World, Interest

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Honesty, Literature

You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.

Friedrich Schiller
Forgiving, Weakness, Saws
"Wilhelm Tell" by Friedrich Schiller, Act III, sc. i, 1803.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Friedrich Schiller
Power, Persuasive, Rhetoric

Speech is always bolder than action.

Friedrich Schiller
Speech, Action

Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.

Friedrich Schiller
Hope, Stars, Night
"Oberon" by Friedrich Schiller, I. 27,

O God, how lovely still is life!

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Lovely, Stills

Art is the right hand of Nature.

Friedrich Schiller
Art, Hands, Art Is
Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.220

To save all we must risk all.

Friedrich Schiller
Sea, Risk
"Fiesco; or, the Genoese Conspiracy" by Friedrich Schiller, Act IV, Sc vi, 1783.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe. The sun poursforth impartially his beams through all the regions of infinity; heaven bestows the dew equally on every thirsty plant. Whatever is good and comes from on high is universal and without reserve: but in the heart's recesses darkness dwells.

Friedrich Schiller
Heart, Heaven, Darkness

Wine invents nothing; it only tattles.

Friedrich Schiller
Wine
Friedrich Schiller (1800). “The Piccolomini, Or the First Part of Wallenstein, a Drama in Five Acts. Translated from the German of Frederick Schiller by S. T. Coleridge”, p.121

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