Quotes of Jean Paul Richter

“ Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

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Actions

“ A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ”

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Courage

“ A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ”

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Cowardice

“ A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ”

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Fear

“ 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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Flowers

“ Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ”

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Birthday

“ Paradise is always where love dwells. ”

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Love

“ The guardian angels of life fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. ”

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Sympathy

“ A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. ”

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Character

“ Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall. ”

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Fly

“ A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. ”

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Fear

“ The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.). ”

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Amusement

“ Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. ”

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Assembly

“ It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise. ”

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Aid

“ Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. ”

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Ball

“ Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. ”

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Beautiful

“ A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. ”

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Being

“ Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent. ”

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Best

“ The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent. ”

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Best

“ 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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Bewildered

“ 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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Bewildered

“ Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ”

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Birthday

“ God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul. ”

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Breathe

“ A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. ”

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Bravery

“ Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. ”

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Black

“ Brevity is the body and soul of wit. ”

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Brevity

“ Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. ”

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Barely

“ Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven. ”

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Bliss

“ God has sown his name on the heavens in glittering stars; but on earth he planteth his name by tender flowers. ”

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Bright

“ 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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Quotes of Jean Paul Richter - somelinesforyou

“ Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm. ”

“ A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ”

“ A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ”

“ A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ”

“ Paradise is always where love dwells. ”

“ The guardian angels of life fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. ”

“ A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. ”

“ Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall. ”

“ A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. ”

“ The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.). ”

“ Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. ”

“ It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise. ”

“ Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. ”

“ Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. ”

“ A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. ”

“ Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent. ”

“ The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ”

“ God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul. ”

“ A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. ”

“ Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. ”

“ Brevity is the body and soul of wit. ”

“ Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. ”

“ Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven. ”

“ God has sown his name on the heavens in glittering stars; but on earth he planteth his name by tender flowers. ”

“ 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. ”