| 37 Famous Quotes by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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“For every event is a judgment of God.
[Ger., Denn aller Ausgang ist ein Gottesurheil.]”
Judgment Quotes Source: Wallenstein's Tod (I, 7, 32)
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“In a narrow circle the mind contracts.
Man grows with his expanded needs.
[Ger., Im engen Kreis verengert sich der Sinn.
Es wachst der Mensch mit seinen grossern Zwecken.]”
Growth Quotes Source: Prolog (I, 59)
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“The dream is short, repentance long.
[Ger., Der Wahn ist kurtz, die Reu ist lang.]”
Repentance Quotes Source: Lied von der Glocke
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“Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke
Should wear his cross upon the heart.”
Hypocrisy Quotes Source: The Fight with the Dragon (st. 24)
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“What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the
wind of accident will collect in one breadth.
[Was der Ameise Vernunft muhsam, zu Haufen schleppt, jagt in
einem Hui der Wind des Zufalls zusammen.”
Accident Quotes Source: Fiesco (act II, sc. 4)
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“To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human
kindness.
[Ger., In gahrend Drachengift hast du
Die Milch der frommen Denkart mir verwandelt.]”
Poison Quotes Source: Wilhelm Tell (IV, 3, 3)
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“The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.
[Ger., Der Mohr hat seine Arbeit gethan, der Mohr kann gehen.]”
Work Quotes Source: Fiesco (III, 4)
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“The zeal of friends it is that razes me,
And not the hate of enemies.
[Ger., Der Freunde Eifer ist's, der mich
Zu Grunde richtet, nicht der Hass der Feinde.]”
Zeal Quotes Source: Wallenstein's Tod (III, 18, last lines)
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“And this be the vocation fit,
For which the founder fashioned it;
High, high above earth's life, earth's labor
E'en to the heaven's blue vault to soar.
To hover as the thunder's neighbor,
The very firmament explore.
To be a voice as from above
Like yonder stars so bright and clear,
That praise their Maker as they move,
And usher in the circling year.
Tun'd be its metal mouth alone
To things eternal and sublime.
And as the swift wing'd hours speed on
May it record the flight of time!”
Bells Quotes Source: Song of the Bell
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“Around, around,
Companions all, take your ground,
And name the bell with joy profound!
Concordia is the world we've found
Most meet to express the harmonious sound,
That calls to those in friendship bound.”
Bells Quotes Source: Song of the Bell
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“I feel that I am a man of destiny.
[Ger., Ich fuhl 's das ich der Mann des Schicksals bin.]”
Destiny Quotes Source: Wallenstein's Tod (III, XV, 171)
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“Deaf rage that hears no leader.
[Ger., Dem tauben Grimm, der keinen Fuhrer hort.]”
Anger Quotes Source: Wallenstein's Tod (III, 20, 16)
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“A jest loses its point when the jester laughs himself.
[Ger., Des Spass verliert Alles, wenn der Spassmacher selber
lacht.]”
Jesting Quotes Source: Fiesco (I, 7)
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“Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.”
Evening Quotes Source: The Assignation (st. 4), (Lord Lytton's translation)
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“We are one people and will act as one.
[Ger., Wir sind ein Volk, und einig wollen wir handeln.]”
Unity Quotes Source: Wilhelm Tell (II, 2, 258)
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“Be united--united--united.
[Ger., Seid einig--einig--einig.]”
Unity Quotes Source: Wilhelm Tell (IV, 2, 158)
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“Alas! when duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.”
Duty Quotes Source: The Playing Infant
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“If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine.
- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller,”
Sympathy Quotes Source: Votive Tablets--Value and World
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“When kings are building, draymen have something to do.
[Ger., Wenn die Konige bau'n, haben die Karrner zu thun.]”
Royalty Quotes Source: Kant und Seine Ausleger
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“Satisfy a few to please many is bad.
[Ger., Mach' es Wenigen recht; vielen gefallen ist schlimm.]”
Satisfaction Quotes Source: Votivtafeln
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“Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain.
[Ger., Mit der Dummheit kampfen Gotter selbst vergebens.]”
Stupidity Quotes Source: Maid of Orleans (act III, sc. 6)
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“A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but
they have heads like a soapboiler's.
[Ger., Schad'um die Leut'! Sind sonst wackre Bruder
Aber das denkt, wie ein Seifensieder.]”
Stupidity Quotes Source: Wallenstein's Lager (XI, 347)
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“Stern is the visage of necessity.
[Ger., Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit.]”
Necessity Quotes Source: Wallenstein's Tod (I, 4, 45)
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“Song forbids victorious deeds to die.”
Songs Quotes Source: The Artists
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“The lively Shadow-World of Song.”
Songs Quotes Source: The Artists
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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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