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What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.
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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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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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
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The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.
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Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.
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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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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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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
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Despair is the only genuine atheism.
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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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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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Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
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Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.
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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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If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.
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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
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Remembrances last longer than present realities.
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feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.
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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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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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