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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
Jean Paul
Johann Paul Richter
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People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.
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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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Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.
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Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.
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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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Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.
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Romanticism is beauty without bounds-the beautiful infinite.
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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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As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.
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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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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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Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.
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Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.
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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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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
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Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.
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Remembrances last longer than present realities.
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It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
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