Jean Paul F. Richter
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(429 votes) Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(328 votes) Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(278 votes) Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(263 votes) Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(254 votes) Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(251 votes) Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
(240 votes) 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.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(237 votes) 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.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(237 votes) Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(229 votes) Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(227 votes) Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(227 votes) 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.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(225 votes) The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(222 votes) Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(220 votes) We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(201 votes) Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(193 votes) Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(192 votes) For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
(190 votes) I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(186 votes) 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.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(185 votes) 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.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(180 votes) A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(180 votes) Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(179 votes) The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(178 votes) A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(178 votes) Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(177 votes) Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(175 votes) It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(165 votes) Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(165 votes) True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
(162 votes) Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist
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