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Action(s)
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He who considers too much will perform little.
-Friedrich von Schiller
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Adventure
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Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
-Friedrich von Schiller
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Advice
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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
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It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
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Art
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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
-Friedrich von Schiller
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Beauty
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Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
-Friedrich von Schiller
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If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.
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Bravery
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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.
-Friedrich von Schiller
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Caution
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He that is over -- cautious will accomplish little.
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Conformity & Nonconformity
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We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?
-Friedrich von Schiller
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Conversation
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Speech is always bolder than action.
-Friedrich von Schiller
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Death
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Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,
To the eternal sun, I render back
These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.
-Friedrich von Schiller, Maid of Orleans, Act III, sc VI, (Talbot's dying words)
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What shall he fear that does not fear death.
-Friedrich von Schiller
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That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
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Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,
Resplendent daughter of the head divine,
Wise foundress of the system of the world,
Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,
Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,
Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,
Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.
-Friedrich von Schiller, Maid of Orleans, Act III, Scene VI, the English General Talbot says this as he is accepting death
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Discovery
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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
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Dissent
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Opposition always enflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
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Dreams
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Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
-Friedrich von Schiller
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Effort
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Wise to resolve, patient to perform.
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Endurance
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Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
-Friedrich von Schiller
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Fame
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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 von Schiller
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Fashion
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No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
-Friedrich von Schiller
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Fate & Destiny
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Stern is the on-look of necessity,
Not without shudder may a human hand
Grasp the mysterious urn of destiny.
-Friedrich von Schiller, The Death of Wallenstein, Countess (at Act I, scene 4, 45)
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There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
-Friedrich von Schiller
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Freedom
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Freedom exists only with power.
-Friedrich von Schiller
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Books by and about Friedrich von Schiller