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  Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

  Jean Paul

  Time, Moon, Light

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• Remembrances last longer than present realities.

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  Reality, Remembrance, Lasts

  Jean Paul (1862). “Titan: A Romance”, p.36

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• People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.

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  Rain, Flower, Fall

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• The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

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  Life, Two, Romance

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

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  Beautiful, Faces, Aging

  Jean Paul (1863). “Titan: A Romance. From the German of Jean Paul Richter”, p.375

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• Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

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  Friendship, Sad, Departed

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• In women everything is heart, even the head.

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  Love, Cute, Heart

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• It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

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  Flattery, Praise, Easy

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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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  Inspirational, Goodbye, Farewell

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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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  Life, Courage, Time

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• Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life.

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  Laughter, Light, Laughing

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• Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

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  Rain, Men, Weather

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• If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

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  Self, Virtue, Stills

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• Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

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  Passion, Observation, Conclusion

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• Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.

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  Life, Men, Delicacy

  Jean Paul (1863). “Titan: A Romance”, p.199

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

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  Dog, War, Hatred

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• A scholar knows no boredom.

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  Boredom, Scholar, Knows

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• There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

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  Sad, Joy, Sorrow

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• Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.

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  Life, Strength, Giving

  "Titan", Zykel 145 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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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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  Tombstone, Reality, Hunting

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• Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

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  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Time

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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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  Gratitude, Joy, Black

  Jean Paul F. RICHTER (1849). “Life of ---,compiled from various sources together with his Autobiography,...”, p.99

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• The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

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  Law, Miracle, Heaven

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• A sky full of silent suns.

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  Sky, Sun, Silent

  Jean Paul (1892). “Flower, Fruit and Thorn Pieces: Or, The Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. (A Genuine Thorn Piece)”

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