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What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breadth. [Was der Ameise Vernunft muhsam, zu Haufen schleppt, jagt in einem Hui der Wind des Zufalls zusammen.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Deaf rage that hears no leader.

And this be the vocation fit, For which the founder fashioned it; High, high above earth's life, earth's labor E'en to the heaven's blue vault to soar. To hover as the thunder's neighbor, The very firmament explore. To be a voice as from above Like yonder stars so bright and clear, That praise their Maker as they move, And usher in the circling year. Tun'd be its metal mouth alone To things eternal and sublime. And as the swift wing'd hours speed on May it record the flight of time!

Around, around, Companions all, take your ground, And name the bell with joy profound! Concordia is the world we've found Most meet to express the harmonious sound, That calls to those in friendship bound.

I feel that I am a man of destiny.

Accursed be he who plays with the devil.

Alas! when duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.

Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.

In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.

Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.

An imitative creature is man; whoever is foremost, leads the herd.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

A jest loses its point when the jester laughs himself.

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.

For every event is a judgment of God.

Misery travels free through the whole world!

This is the spot where I am mortal.