Astronomical Writings
Oh, how infinite, how unspeakably great, are the heavens!
Yet by frivolity's hand downwards the heavens are pulled!
poem by Friedrich Schiller
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Worth And The Worthy
If thou anything hast, let me have it,--I'll pay what is proper;
If thou anything art, let us our spirits exchange.
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Participation
E'en by the hand of the wicked can truth be working with vigor;
But the vessel is filled by what is beauteous alone.
poem by Friedrich Schiller
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Difference Of Station
Even the moral world its nobility boasts--vulgar natures
Reckon by that which they do; noble, by that which they are.
poem by Friedrich Schiller
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To The Muse
What I had been without thee, I know not--yet, to my sorrow
See I what, without thee, hundreds and thousands now are.
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The Key
Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others.
Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.
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The Duty Of All
Ever strive for the whole; and if no whole thou canst make thee,
Join, then, thyself to some whole, as a subservient limb!
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Thee would I choose as my teacher and friend. Thy living example
Teaches me,--thy teaching word wakens my heart unto life.
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Female Judgement
Man frames his judgment on reason; but woman on love founds her verdict;
If her judgment loves not, woman already has judged.
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Inside And Outside
God alone sees the heart and therefore, since he alone sees it,
Be it our care that we, too, something that's worthy may see.
poem by Friedrich Schiller
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