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By AnonymJean Paul
Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.
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By AnonymJean Paul
A loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold.
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By AnonymJean Paul
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.
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By AnonymJean Paul
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
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By AnonymJean Paul
As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.
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By AnonymJean Paul
A scholar knows no boredom.
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By AnonymJean Paul
A sky full of silent suns.
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By AnonymJean Paul
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
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By AnonymJean Paul
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
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By AnonymJean Paul
A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.
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By AnonymJean Paul
A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.
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By AnonymJean Paul
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
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By AnonymJean Paul
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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By AnonymJean Paul
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
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By AnonymJean Paul
Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.
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By AnonymJean Paul
Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.
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By AnonymJean Paul
Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
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By AnonymJean Paul
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
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By AnonymJean Paul
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
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By AnonymJean Paul
Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present
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By AnonymJean Paul
feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.
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By AnonymJean Paul
Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.
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By AnonymJean Paul
For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.
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By AnonymJean Paul
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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By AnonymJean Paul
For the Infinite has sowed his name in the heavens in burning stars, but on the earth He has sowed his name in tender flowers.
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By AnonymJean Paul
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
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By AnonymJean Paul
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
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By AnonymJean Paul
Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the eyes of birds when we wish them to sing?
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By AnonymJean Paul
He thought of the mouldering child, which laid its withered thin arms around his soul, as if it were his own, and to whom Death had given as much as a god gave to Endymion, — sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
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By AnonymJean Paul
How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.
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By AnonymJean Paul
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
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By AnonymJean Paul
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.
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By AnonymJean Paul
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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By AnonymJean Paul
Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.
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By AnonymJean Paul
In later life, as in earlier, 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 one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.
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By AnonymJean Paul
In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.
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By AnonymJean Paul
In women everything is heart, even the head.
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By AnonymJean Paul
It has been jestingly said that the works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to any but the Germans, and even to some of them. A worthy German, just before Richter's death, edited a complete edition of his works, in which one particular passage fairly puzzled him. Determined to have it explained at the source, he went to John Paul himself. The author's reply was very characteristic: "My good friend, when I wrote that passage, God and I knew what it meant; it is possible that God knows it still; but as for me, I have totally forgotten.
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By AnonymJean Paul
It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.
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By AnonymJean Paul
It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.
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By AnonymJean Paul
It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.
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By AnonymJean Paul
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
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By AnonymJean Paul
Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
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By AnonymJean Paul
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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By AnonymJean Paul
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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By AnonymJean Paul
Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life.
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By AnonymJean Paul
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
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By AnonymJean Paul
Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.
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By AnonymJean Paul
Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.
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By AnonymJean Paul
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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