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What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

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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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Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.
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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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Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.
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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
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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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Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
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Remembrances last longer than present realities.
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Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.
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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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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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Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
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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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