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Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.

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Jean Paul
Age: 62 †
Born: 1763
Born: March 21
Died: 1825
Died: November 14
Novelist
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Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
Jean Paul Richter
Zhen Polʹ Friderik Rikhter
Jean Paul
Johann Paul Richter
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feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.
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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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For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.
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Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.
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Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
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A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.
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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
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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 last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic.
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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
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It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.
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Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
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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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