Jean Paul Quotes

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• Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.
• The Infinate has sowed His name in the heavens in burning stars, but on earth He has sowed His name in tender flowers.
• The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
• 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.
• What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.
• Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
• Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.
• Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
• Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
• Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.
• Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
• 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…
• In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.
• It is easier and handier for men to flattery than to praise.
• Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.
• The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most beautiful period of…
• The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of…
• Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present
• 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…
• 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.…

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