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What is life without the radiance of love?

What is life without the radiance of love?

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Love Life, Radiance
"Wallenstein". Book by Friedrich Schiller translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Part II, Act IV, Scene XII), 1798.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Friedrich Schiller
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Lamps, Genius
Friedrich Schiller, Henry George Bohn (1849). “Works”, p.178

Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Love Is, Persist
Friedrich Schiller, Henry George Bohn, Alexander James William Morrison (1872). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Historical dramas, etc”, p.57

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

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Women, Rose

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.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Honesty, Literature

O God, how lovely still is life!

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Lovely, Stills

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Home, Secret Love

The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Heart, Games

O that it might remain eternally green, The beautiful time of youthful love.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Beautiful, Green

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Grief, Hands

Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Arms, Lists

Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Heart, Knowledge
Friedrich Schiller (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete: Including All His Early Suppressed Pieces”, p.269

O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Ocean, Boat
Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.248

Life did not present its sunny side to thee.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Sides, Sunny
"Mary Stuart". Play by Friedrich Schiller, II. 3. 136, June 14, 1800.

The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Heart, Fate
"Wallenstein" by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Act III, sc. viii, 1798.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Dust, Names

The May of life blooms once and never again.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, May
"Resignation". Poem by Friedrich Schiller, Stanza 2, 1786.

Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure, Pass the days of life's short measure, From the slow one counsel take, But a tool of him ne'er make; Ne'er as friend the swift one know, Nor the constant one as foe.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Tools, Pleasure
Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.298, Delphi Classics

Ah, to that far distant strand Bridge there was not to convey, Not a bark was near at hand, Yet true love soon found the way.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Hands, Bridges
Friedrich Schiller, Edgar Alfred BOWRING (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete ... Attempted in English by E. A. Bowring”, p.146

His saying was: live and let live.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Live Life, Live And Let Live

We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Hours, Claims
"An die Freude", Stanza 1 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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

Friedrich Schiller
Life, Enjoyed

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