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Jean Paul Richter Quotes

«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.»
«The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.»
Author: Jean Paul Richter (Novelist) | Keywords: twilight
«Be great in act, as you have been in thought.»
Author: Jean Paul Richter (Novelist) | About: Action, Thought | Keywords: act as
«Anger wishes all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart»
Author: Jean Paul Richter (Novelist) | About: Anger | Keywords: neck
«Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?»
«Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.»
Author: Jean Paul Richter (Novelist) | Keywords: situations
«There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.»
Author: Jean Paul Richter (Novelist) | Keywords: mourner
«Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.»
«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.»
«Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.»

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