Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright
Tabulae Votivae (Votive Tablets) (1796), "The Key"; tr. Edgar Alfred Bowring, The Poems of Schiller, Complete (1851)
Variant translation:[citation needed]
If you want to know yourself,
Just look how others do it;
If you want to understand others,
Look into your own heart
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
then let thy heart<br>From its present pathway part not!<br>Being everything which now thou art,<br>Be nothing which thou art not.<br>So with the world thy gentle ways,<br>Thy grace, thy more than beauty,<br>Shall be an endless theme of praise,<br>And love — a simple duty. <br class="br">" To Frances S. Osgood http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/595/" (1845).
“If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 119
“If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 76
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist
Life Without and Life Within (1859), The One In All
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist
Life Without and Life Within (1859), The One In All
“Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
The Size, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“A spark without its fire, a drop without its sea,
Without rebirth what more, pray, wouldst thou be?”
Angelus Silesius (1624–1677) German writer
The Cherubinic Wanderer
