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1759–1805 Germany
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805), usually known as Friedrich Schiller, was a German poet, physician, historian, dramatist, and playwright.
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Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time.
The May of life blooms once and never again.
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
Appearance should never attain reality,
Thy sweet magic brings together
What's old collapses, times change,
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.
Würde der Frauen (1796)
A moment lived in paradise
Don Carlos (1787)
On dreary night let lusty sunshine fall.
On the mountains is freedom; no clammy breath
The Bride of Messina (1804)
Day follows on the murkiest night, and, when the time comes, the latest fruits will ripen.
Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.
'Tis not the mere stage of life but the part we play thereon that gives the value.
Freedom is only in the land of dreams, and the beautiful only blooms in song.
In days of yore [in ancient Greece] nothing was sacred but the beautiful.
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.
Man must have some fears, hopes, and cares, for the coming morrow.
Man, living, feeling man is the easy prey of the powerful present.
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