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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

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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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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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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
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feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.
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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
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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 regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
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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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Despair is the only genuine atheism.
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Romanticism is beauty without bounds-the beautiful infinite.
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
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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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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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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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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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In women everything is heart, even the head.
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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
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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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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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