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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
Jean Paul
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Jean Paul
Age: 62 †
Born: 1763
Born: March 21
Died: 1825
Died: November 14
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Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
Jean Paul Richter
Zhen Polʹ Friderik Rikhter
Jean Paul
Johann Paul Richter
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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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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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feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.
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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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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
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Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
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Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.
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A sky full of silent suns.
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He thought of the mouldering child, which laid its withered thin arms around his soul, as if it were his own, and to whom Death had given as much as a god gave to Endymion, — sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
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The German language is the organ among the languages.
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