Friedrich Schiller Quotes About Giving
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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.
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It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.
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Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.
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Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.
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Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year.
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One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.
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What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.
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Never the grave gives back what it has won!
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It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
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Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.
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