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Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.

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Jean Paul
Age: 62 †
Born: 1763
Born: March 21
Died: 1825
Died: November 14
Novelist
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Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
Jean Paul Richter
Zhen Polʹ Friderik Rikhter
Jean Paul
Johann Paul Richter
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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
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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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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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Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
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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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The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.
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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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Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.
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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
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Despair is the only genuine atheism.
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feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.
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The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most beautiful period of the heart's existence is in this calm equable light, even although it be only moonshine or twilight. Now the mind alone can obtain for us this heavenly cheerfulness and peace.
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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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It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.
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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 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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Paradise is always where love dwells.
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Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
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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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