Jean Paul Quotes About Literature
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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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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
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Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.
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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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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
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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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What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.
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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
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Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
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God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
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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.
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The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
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