12 Friedrich von Schiller Quotes on Happiness

Friedrich von Schiller quotes on happiness

18. Pain is short, and joy is eternal.

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22. Don't let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.

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30. A moment lived in paradise Is not atoned for too dearly by death.

33. Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal, Daughter of Elysium! Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing Goddess, to thy shrine we come. Thy sweet magic brings together What stern Custom spreads afar; All men become brothers Where thy happy wing-beats are.

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36. He, that noble prize possessing- He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!

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38. Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion, When the wheel of time goes round

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39. Joy from truth's own glass of fire Sweetly on the searcher smiles; Lest on virtue's steeps he tire, Joy the tedious path beguiles. High on faith's bright hill before us, See her banner proudly wave! Joy, too, swells the angels' chorus,- Bursts the bondage of the grave!

58. Life is earnest, art is gay.

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74. What is life without the radiance of love?

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83. A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

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135. The will of man is his happiness.

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138. There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

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