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Verschmerzen werd' ich diesen Schlag, das weiss ich, Denn was verschmerzte nicht der Mensch! I shall grieve down this blow, of that I'm conscious: What does not man grieve down? By Frederich Schiller HERMANN GESSLER, Governor of Schwytz and Uri. WERNER, Baron of Attinghausen, free noble of Switzerland. ULRICH VON RUDENZ, his Nephew.
It was in this sense that the mystic Angelas Silesius declared that God could not live for a moment without him, and that if he were to be annihilated God must of necessity give up the ghost: Ich weiss dass ohne mich Gott nicht ein Nu kann leben; Werd' ich zunicht, er muss von Noth den Geist aufgeben.
Those who sleep and are indifferent in spiritual matters find peace; but those who are alive and awake must beat the wind, and battle, belike, with much useless loss of strength, before they can arrive even at that first postulate of all healthy thinking there is a God. "Ueber Gott werd ich nie streiten," said Herder. "About God I will never dispute."
I have not drunk deep of life because I have been unathirst. To me "To stand aloof and view the fight Is all the pleasure of the game." My interest even in Judith has been of a detached nature. I have been like Faust. I might have said: "Werd' ich zum Augenblicke sagen Werweile doch! Du bist so schon! Then may the devil take me and do what he likes with me!"
"Yes, and Hoosay too, thet Presberteen man thet sines his name with er dubble D hung on ter ther een." "Jonas Melvin is er windin up his kerrare in Free Will Church. We'll hev no sich men fumblin wi ther werd ev God in our pulpit. I never did think them Presbyteens hed eny religin no way. They air full of book larnin, but havn't bin tech wit ther sparit.
We are too apt to be like Recha in "Nathan," when she only looked at the palm trees because the Templar was standing under them; when her mind recovered its balance, she could see the palm trees themselves. "Nun werd' ich auch die Palmen wieder sehen Nicht ihn bloss untern Palmen."
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