Only those who have to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily


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FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
The key to education is the experience of beauty.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man whe...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally i...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized worl...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Art is the daughter of freedom.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Great souls endure in silence.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
There are three lessons I would write-
Three words, as with a burning pen,
In tracings of...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, ne...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER