Jean Paul Quotes

• Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

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

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• Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

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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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• The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

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• 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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• Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

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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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• You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

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

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

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Jean Paul (52)

Birth:	21st March, 1763
Death:	14th November, 1825
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Novelist

About

Jean Paul was born in Wunsiedel, Bavaria, Germany. He was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories. He studied at the University of Leipzig. He wrote several novels include: Siebenkäs and Titan.

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