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The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.
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
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Johann Paul Richter
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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
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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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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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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 happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most beautiful period of the heart's existence is in this calm equable light, even although it be only moonshine or twilight. Now the mind alone can obtain for us this heavenly cheerfulness and peace.
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In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.
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The German language is the organ among the languages.
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The heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars therein, if only the star of love has arisen.
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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
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Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.
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It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
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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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For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed and gratefully appreciated, they must be interrupted so the person can see that not having them is not as good as having them.
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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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Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.
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If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.
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Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.
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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
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Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
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