Art is the daughter of freedom.
Friedrich SchillerRead
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
Interpretation
A nation that does not value its honor is not worth anything.
This quote by Friedrich Schiller emphasizes the importance of honor and integrity for a nation. It suggests that the true worth of a nation is determined by its willingness to uphold its honor, implying that a lack of commitment to these values leads to worthlessness and diminishes its stature in the eyes of the world.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about national values and integrity.
Art is the daughter of freedom.
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.
As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.
Wise to resolve, patient to perform.
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
So it is that real, personal sacrifice never was placing an animal on the altar. Instead, it is a willingness to put the animal in us upon the altar and letting it be consumed! Such is the 'sacrifice unto the Lord... of a broken heart and a contrite spirit,' (D&C 59:8), a prerequisite to taking up the cross, while giving 'away all [our] sins' in order to 'know God' (Alma 22:18) for the denial of self precedes the full acceptance of Him.
I think the O.J. Simpson trial was a revelation about the ongoing patterns of racial difference in American society.
The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious.
There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing.
Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.
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