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Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.
The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.
Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.
No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life.
Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.
O that it might remain eternally green, The beautiful time of youthful love.
The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.
The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
Fate always wins, for our own heart within us Imperiously furthers its designs.
No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.
The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.
As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.
Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.
Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
Love guides the stars towards each other, the world plan endures only through love.
The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear.
The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.
Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.
Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.
An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.
In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.
One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.
Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!
I am called The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my dominion never sets.
I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.
To know thyself--in others self-concern; Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn!
To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.
Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.
A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.
A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.
When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist
It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.
Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.
To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.
Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm himself at no home-lit hearth.
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.