Jean Paul Richter
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Quotes by Jean Paul Richter
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Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
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No one is so much alone in the universe as a denier of God.
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The very afflictions of our earthly pilgrimage are presages of our future glory, as shadows indicate the sun.
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God makes the world all over again, whenever a little child is born.
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Only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which his nation and the spirit of his nation affect the individual.
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A man never shows his own character so plainly as by the way he portrays another's.
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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it and conquering it.
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Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.
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Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
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What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.
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God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
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The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.
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Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.
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The test of an enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.
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Of music. Thou speakest to me of things which in all my endless life I have not found and shall not find.
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If a child tells you a lie, tell him that he has told a lie, but don't call him a liar. If you define him as a liar, you break down his confidence in his own character.
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A scholar knows no boredom.
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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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The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil, the future, the virgin's.
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