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Jean Paul Quotes

Helpless mortal! Thine arm can destroy thousands at once, but cannot enclose even two of thy fellow creatures at once in the embrace of love and sympathy! Picture Quote #1

Music is the metre of this poetic movement, and is an invisible dance, as dancing is a silent music Picture Quote #1

See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep her heart open to heaven Picture Quote #1

Music, if only listened to, and not scientifically cultivated, gives too much play to the feelings and fancy; the difficulties of the art draw forth the whole energies of the soul Picture Quote #1

Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart; grief, two tear glands; and pride, two bent knees Picture Quote #1

Since truthfulness, as a conscious virtue and sacrifice, is the blossom, nay, the pollen, of the whole moral growth, it can only grow with its growth, and open when it has reached its height Picture Quote #1

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Sorrow seems sent for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we would teach them to sing Picture Quote #1

All cares appear twice as large as they really are, owing to their emptiness and darkness; and so is it with the grave Picture Quote #1

Thoughts perhaps, which, like field mice of the soul, leap under the feet and stick like adders Picture Quote #1

O the wound of conscience is no scar, and time cools it not with his wing, but merely keeps it open with his scythe Picture Quote #1

Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world, and the old man lives among graves Picture Quote #1

Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it Picture Quote #1

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Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another Picture Quote #1

To love early and marry late is to hear a lark singing at dawn, and at night to eat it roasted for supper Picture Quote #1

The apparently irreconcilable dissimilarity between our wishes and our means, between our hearts and this world, remains a riddle Picture Quote #1

Love requires not so much proofs, as expressions, of love. Love demands little else than the power to feel and to requite love Picture Quote #1

No school is more necessary to children than patience, because either the will must be broken in childhood or the heart in old age Picture Quote #1

We bewail our friends as if there were no better futurity yonder, and bewail ourselves as if there were no better futurity here; for all our passions are born atheists and infidels Picture Quote #1

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When thou forgivest, the man who has pierced thy heart stands to thee in the relation of the sea worm that perforates the shell of the mussel which straightway closes the wound with a pearl Picture Quote #1

Ah! The youngest heart has the same waves within it as the oldest; but without the plummet which can measure their depths Picture Quote #1

In fashionable circles general satire, which attacks the fault rather than the person, is unwelcome; while that which attacks the person and spares the fault is always acceptable Picture Quote #1

Never write on a subject without having first read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it Picture Quote #1

On the church vaulting above was the clock face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell Picture Quote #1

Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it Picture Quote #1

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows Picture Quote #1

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age Picture Quote #1

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Helpless mortal! Thine arm can destroy thousands at once, but cannot enclose even two of thy fellow creatures at once in the embrace of love and sympathy! (Jean Paul Quotes) Music is the metre of this poetic movement, and is an invisible dance, as dancing is a silent music (Jean Paul Quotes) See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep her heart open to heaven (Jean Paul Quotes) Music, if only listened to, and not scientifically cultivated, gives too much play to the feelings and fancy; the difficulties of the art draw forth the whole energies of the soul (Jean Paul Quotes) Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart; grief, two tear glands; and pride, two bent knees (Jean Paul Quotes) Since truthfulness, as a conscious virtue and sacrifice, is the blossom, nay, the pollen, of the whole moral growth, it can only grow with its growth, and open when it has reached its height (Jean Paul Quotes) Sorrow seems sent for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we would teach them to sing (Jean Paul Quotes) All cares appear twice as large as they really are, owing to their emptiness and darkness; and so is it with the grave (Jean Paul Quotes) Thoughts perhaps, which, like field mice of the soul, leap under the feet and stick like adders (Jean Paul Quotes) O the wound of conscience is no scar, and time cools it not with his wing, but merely keeps it open with his scythe (Jean Paul Quotes) Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world, and the old man lives among graves (Jean Paul Quotes) Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it (Jean Paul Quotes) Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another (Jean Paul Quotes) To love early and marry late is to hear a lark singing at dawn, and at night to eat it roasted for supper (Jean Paul Quotes) The apparently irreconcilable dissimilarity between our wishes and our means, between our hearts and this world, remains a riddle (Jean Paul Quotes) Love requires not so much proofs, as expressions, of love. Love demands little else than the power to feel and to requite love (Jean Paul Quotes) No school is more necessary to children than patience, because either the will must be broken in childhood or the heart in old age (Jean Paul Quotes) We bewail our friends as if there were no better futurity yonder, and bewail ourselves as if there were no better futurity here; for all our passions are born atheists and infidels (Jean Paul Quotes) When thou forgivest, the man who has pierced thy heart stands to thee in the relation of the sea worm that perforates the shell of the mussel which straightway closes the wound with a pearl (Jean Paul Quotes) Ah! The youngest heart has the same waves within it as the oldest; but without the plummet which can measure their depths (Jean Paul Quotes) In fashionable circles general satire, which attacks the fault rather than the person, is unwelcome; while that which attacks the person and spares the fault is always acceptable (Jean Paul Quotes) Never write on a subject without having first read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it (Jean Paul Quotes) On the church vaulting above was the clock face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it (Jean Paul Quotes) 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 (Jean Paul Quotes) Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell (Jean Paul Quotes) Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it (Jean Paul Quotes) Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows (Jean Paul Quotes) Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him (Jean Paul Quotes) 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 (Jean Paul Quotes) The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age (Jean Paul Quotes)

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