Modest humility is beauty's crown. Friedrich Schiller More Quotes by Friedrich Schiller More Quotes From Friedrich Schiller If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad. Friedrich Schiller please deeds art Song forbids victorious deeds to die. Friedrich Schiller dies deeds song Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next. Friedrich Schiller axes gratitude love-is Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality. Friedrich Schiller poetry real ideas Around, around, Companions all, take your ground, And name the bell with joy profound! CONCORDIA is the word we've found Most meet to express the harmonious sound, That calls to those in friendship bound. Friedrich Schiller names joy profound Never the grave gives back what it has won! Friedrich Schiller giving-back graves giving Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds. Friedrich Schiller fading flower spring On dreary night let lusty sunshine fall. Friedrich Schiller sunshine night fall Pain is short, and joy is eternal. Friedrich Schiller eternal pain joy Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil. Friedrich Schiller soil thrive strange What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs. Friedrich Schiller giving men hands Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time. Friedrich Schiller encouragement spiritual art The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows. Friedrich Schiller storm wind men 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 dominion joy moving Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart. Friedrich Schiller yoke hypocrisy heart The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds. Friedrich Schiller cords iron chains You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race. Friedrich Schiller individuality race order I feel an army in my fist. Friedrich Schiller army fists feels Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning. Friedrich Schiller crowns shining winning We must bear what Heaven sends. Friedrich Schiller bears heaven
