Friedrich Schiller on Life
1759–1805 Germany
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The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.
The May of life blooms once and never again.
'Tis not the mere stage of life but the part we play thereon that gives the value.
Life did not present its sunny side to thee.
O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold—
One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!
We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.
His saying was: live and let live.
Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure,
Pass the days of life's short measure,
From the slow one counsel take,
But a tool of him ne'er make;
Ne'er as friend the swift one know,
Nor the constant one as foe.