• 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.

  Friedrich von Schiller
  German poet and playwright 1759-1805
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. self-sufficiency
2. loveliness
3. celestial
4. kindles
5. allow
6. holds

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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. by : Friedrich von Schiller

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