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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
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Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
Jean Paul Richter
Zhen Polʹ Friderik Rikhter
Jean Paul
Johann Paul Richter
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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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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
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Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.
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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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No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one
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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 women everything is heart, even the head.
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A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.
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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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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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The German language is the organ among the languages.
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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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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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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
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Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.
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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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The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.
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As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.
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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
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Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.
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