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The German language is the organ among the languages.

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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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Repetition is the mother of education.
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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
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Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.
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Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.
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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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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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With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?
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Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
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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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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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Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
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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 man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
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We learn our virtues from our friends who love us our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
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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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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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Remembrances last longer than present realities.
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A scholar knows no boredom.
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