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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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Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.
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Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
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Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.
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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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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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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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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
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Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.
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Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
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It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.
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In women everything is heart, even the head.
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feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.
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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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Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.
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Remembrances last longer than present realities.
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A scholar knows no boredom.
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The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.
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It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.
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