"But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]"
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"Duty is the demand of the hour."
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"All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny."
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"No, no! The devil is an egotist, And is not apt, without why or wherefore, "For God's sake," others to assist. [Ger., Nein, nein! Der Teufel ist ein Egoist Und thut nicht leicht um Gottes Willen, Was einem Andern nutzlich ist.]"
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"A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself for a hundred years, and feels an extreme satisfaction with his own circle of favorite ideas, be they ever so silly."
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"What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us."
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"No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult."
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"And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before."
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"A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training."
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"When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn ich luge, nicht.]"
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"A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]"
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"Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]"
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"My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. [Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin, Mein Herz ist schwer.]"
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"Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout."
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"Superstition is the poetry of life."
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"He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it."
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"We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for."
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"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."
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"If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy."
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"Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day."
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