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Jean Paul Inspirational Quotes (67)

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A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.
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We learn our virtues from our friends who love us our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
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The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
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Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
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With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?
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Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
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I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.
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Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
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Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.
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People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.
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Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned the stream of history from its old channel, and still continues to rule and guide the ages
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Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.
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For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.
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I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
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The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.
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The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.
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Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
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A sky full of silent suns.
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The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
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Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
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Remembrances last longer than present realities.
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It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
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