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• Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

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  Giving, Literature, Pleasure

  Jean Paul F. Richter (1880). “Levana; or, The doctrine of education, tr. [by A.H.]. Preceded by a short biogr. of the author [condensed from that of E. Förster] and his autobiography, a fragment”

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• 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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  Science, Idols, Moral

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• The German language is the organ among the languages.

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  German Language, Language, Organs

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• The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

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  Death, Twilight, Darkness

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• 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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  Birthday, Time, Winter

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• Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

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  Reality, Men, Literature

  Jean Paul (1862). “Titan: A Romance”, p.156

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• 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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  Inspirational, Death, Sleep

  "Flower, Fruit and Thorn Pieces: Or, The Married Life, Death, and Wedding of the Advocate of the Poor, Firmian Stanislaus Sibenkäs".

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• 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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  Love, Beautiful, Summer

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• 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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  Stars, Flower, Names

  "Hesperus Or Forty-five Dog-post-days".

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• Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.

  Jean Paul

  Life, Forever, Seasons

  "Hesperus". Book by Jean Paul, IX, 1795.

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• Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

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  Literature, Poverty, Loved Ones

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• It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

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  Inspirational, People, Praise

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• 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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  Fog, Air, Infidelity

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• Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

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  Memories, Loss, Men

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• Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

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  Past, Reality, Two

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• feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.

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  Farewell, Men, Feelings

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• It is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness.

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  Happiness, Littles

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• The heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars therein, if only the star of love has arisen.

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  Stars, Heart, Space

  Jean Paul (1862). “Titan: A Romance”, p.473

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• 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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  Life, Teacher, Character

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• The look of a king is itself a deed.

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  Kings, Power, Looks

  Jean Paul (1866). “Levana: or, The doctrine of education”, p.272

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• A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.

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  Monotony, Variety, Superiors

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• Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

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  Faults, Chiefs, Humans

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• The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

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  Dance, Running, Exercise

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• 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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  Gratitude, Sleep, Riches

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• 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.

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  Mom, Daughter, Heart

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