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Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
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.
If you want to know yourself,
Just look how others do it;
If you want to understand others,
Look into your own heart.
What is life without the radiance of love?
We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.
Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
The lemonade is weak, like your soul.
It is a ring that makes a marriage and it is from rings that chains are made.
To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.
A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.
It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.
Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.
Satisfy a few to please many is bad.
It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.
Mazarin shed tears over this great loss, which Conde, who had no feeling for anything but glory, disregarded. "A single night in Paris," said he, "gives birth to more men than this action has destroyed.
O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold-
One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
The child of nature, when he breaks loose, becomes a madman; but the art scholar, when he breaks loose, becomes a debased character.
The first great law is to obey.
O that it might remain eternally green,
The beautiful time of youthful love.
Never the grave gives back what it has won!
Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
Song forbids victorious deeds to die.
Stern is the visage of necessity.
A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.
When the measured dance of the hours brings back the happy smile of spring, the buried dead is born again in the life-glance of the sun. The germs which perished to the eye within the cold breast of the earth spring up with joy in the bright realm of day.
Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue
The brave person thinks of himself last of all.
I feel that I am a man of destiny.
Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.
Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.
Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.
The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.
There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
What's old collapses, times change, and new life blossoms in the ruins.
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I will make an observation, and illustrate it by an allegory. Apparently, it is not good-and indeed it hinders the creative work of the mind-if the if the intellect examines too closely the ideas pouring in, as it were, at the gates.
The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear.
Forgiveness is the divinest of victories.
O the eye's light is a noble gift of Heaven! All beings live from light, each fair created thing; the very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.
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.
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.
Speech is always bolder than action.
Life is earnest, art is gay.
O friends, no more these sounds!
Let us sing more cheerful songs, more full of joy!
When I hate I rob myself of something; but when I love I become richer by the object I love.
Love can sun the realms of night.
There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.
Misery travels free through the whole world!
Freedom can occur only through education.
In the case of the creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then does it review and inspect the multitude. You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.
There is no solitude in nature.
Love is the reward of love ...
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
When the gods were more manlike, Men were more godlike.
The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.
Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!
He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!
I am my own heaven and hell!
It seems a bad thing and detrimental to the creative work of the mind if Reason makes to close an examination of the ideas as they come pouring in -at the very gateway, as it were. Looked at in isolation, a thought may seem very trivial or very fantastic; but it may be made important by another thought that comes after it, and in conjunction with other thoughts that may seem equally absurd, it may serve to form a most effective link. Reason cannot form any opinion on all this unless it retains the thought long enough to look at it in connection with the others. On the other hand, where there is a creative mind, Reason -so it seems to me- relaxes its watch upon the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then does it look them through and examine them in a mass.
What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
If you wish to know yourself observe how others act.
If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.
Gray hairs are death's blossoms.
What is the short meaning of the long speech?
O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?
The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life.
Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.
In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.
Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.
Appearance rules the world.
Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.
History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppressively, and with a kind of optical illusion, expands his short existence into endless space, leading the individual imperceptibly over into humanity.
Fear of death is worse than dying.
Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?
Genuine art . . . does not have as its object a mere transitory game. Its serious purpose is not merely to translate the human being into a momentary dream of freedom, but actually to MAKE him free.
Obedience decks the Christian most.
If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.
The concrete life of the individual is destroyed in order that the abstract idea of the whole may drag out its sorry existence.
Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.
He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
Truth is more than a dream and a song.
In order to detain the fleeting apparition, he must enchain it in the fetters of rule, dissect its fair proportions into abstract notions, and preserve its living spirit in a fleshless skeleton of words.
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom.