Man is an imitative creature.
If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.
Far must thy researches go Wouldst thou learn the world to know; Thou must tempt the dark abyss Wouldst thou prove what Being is; Naught but firmness gains the prize, Naught but fullness makes us wise, Buried deep truth e'er lies.
It is play and only play that makes man complete.
There is a nobility in the world of manners.
It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth.
O tender yearning, sweet hoping! The golden time of first love! The eye sees the open heaven, The heart is intoxicated with bliss; O that the beautiful time of young love Could remain green forever.
Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.
The happy man does not notice the flight of time.
Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?
Great souls suffer in silence.
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
What's old collapses, times change, And new life blossoms in the ruins.
Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.
False fancy brings real misery.
Freedom exists only with power.
Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulse.
In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.
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.
Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.
There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
There is no solitude in nature.
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