Quotes by Friedrich Schiller
4 quotes by Friedrich Schiller (died 1805), taken from 3 works. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Works quoted: Wilhelm Tell, Hymn to Joy and Don Carlos.
Wilhelm Tell
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“The old is crumbling down--the times are changing And from the ruins blooms a fairer life.”
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“Though it be night there’s sunshine in our cause.”
Hymn to Joy
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“Joy, thou goddess, fair, immortal, / Offspring of Elysium, / Mad with rapture, to the portal / Of thy holy fame we come! / Fashion’s laws, indeed, may sever, / But thy magic joins again; / All mankind are brethren ever / 'Neath thy mild and gentle reign.”
Don Carlos
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“Truth is created for the sage, as beauty is for the feeling heart. They own each other.”