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Action(s)
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Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
-Jean Paul Richter
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Adversity
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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
-Jean Paul Richter
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Advice
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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.
-Jean Paul Richter
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Age
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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.
-Jean Paul Richter
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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.
-Jean Paul Richter
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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
-Jean Paul Richter
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Authors & Writing
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Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
-Jean Paul Richter
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Birthdays
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
-Jean Paul Richter
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Bravery
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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
-Jean Paul Richter
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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
-Jean Paul Richter
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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.
-Jean Paul Richter
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Character
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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
-Jean Paul Richter
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Death
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The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
-Jean Paul Richter
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Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
-Jean Paul Richter
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Forgiveness
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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
-Jean Paul Richter
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Friends
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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
-Jean Paul Richter
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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
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Happiness
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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
-Jean Paul Richter
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Leadership
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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.
-Jean Paul Richter
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Love
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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
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Manners
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Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
-Jean Paul Richter
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Memory
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
-Jean Paul Richter
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Miracles
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The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
-Jean Paul Richter
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Motivational
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It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
-Jean Paul Richter
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Books by and about Jean Paul Richter