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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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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
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feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.
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For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.
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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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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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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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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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A scholar knows no boredom.
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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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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
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Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.
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For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed and gratefully appreciated, they must be interrupted so the person can see that not having them is not as good as having them.
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As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.
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Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
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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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The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
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Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.
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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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Repetition is the mother of education.
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Remembrances last longer than present realities.
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