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• There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

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• Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

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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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• I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

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

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• For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

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• Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

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• Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

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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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• The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

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

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• Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

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• Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

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• A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

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• Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

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• 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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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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