No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand

Quote by Friedrich Von Schiller

Topics: Grief Quotes

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

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

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

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God

Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge...

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge...

A healthy nature needs no God or immortality

A healthy nature needs no God or immortality

One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.

One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.

Votes should be weighed, not counted

Votes should be weighed, not counted

The zeal of friends it is that knocks me down, and not the hate of...

The zeal of friends it is that knocks me down, and not the hate of...

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air

Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity...

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity...

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful -...

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful -...

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every...

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every...