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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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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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feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.
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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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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
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Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.
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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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For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.
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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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In women everything is heart, even the head.
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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
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Remembrances last longer than present realities.
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Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.
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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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Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
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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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A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.
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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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Romanticism is beauty without bounds-the beautiful infinite.
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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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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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